Re: Post-stretch mass bug filing: build-depending on automake1.11

* Paul Wise (p...@debian.org) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 1:36 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > Most of the packages that I've glanced at so far seem to have moved > > from an ancient version (often automake1.4 or automake1.9) to 1.11. > > In the past, Automake had a tendency to break compatib

Re: Post-stretch mass bug filing: build-depending on automake1.11

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 1:36 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: > Most of the packages that I've glanced at so far seem to have moved > from an ancient version (often automake1.4 or automake1.9) to 1.11. > In the past, Automake had a tendency to break compatibility > between minor releases, making it desir

Re: Post-stretch mass bug filing: build-depending on automake1.11

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 1:36 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: > Paul Wise >warzone2100 (U) I've talked to folks on the upstream IRC channel and it appears to be compatible with automake 1.14 so the latest version will probably work. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Rebuilding package reverse build-dependencies

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 03:24:48PM +0200, Eugene Zhukov wrote: >> I have a package (saxonhe) whose newer versions are not backwards >> compatible and break other packages (build)depending on it e.g. >> epubcheck. I guess this is a common probl