Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> writes: > Eric Blake <e...@byu.net> writes: > >> Meanwhile, based on the recent security hole in older automake, >> should we bite the bullet and require automake 1.10.3 or better >> (which in turn bumps the minimum autoconf requirement from 2.59 >> up to 2.60)? > > Debian stable has Automake 1.10.1. In my opinion it would be sad > to exclude that version, if it's possible to allow it.
I agree -- Ubuntu 8.04 (and gNewSense) also has 1.10.1. I don't see any reason to increment the required minimum version here -- I was already using autoconf 2.61. Supporting the latest stable release of popular GNU/Linux distributions shouldn't be too difficult for us. /Simon
