Most packages in Debian that run autoreconf currently build-depend directly or indirectly on automake (version 1.14.1 in jessie, released 2013; version 1.15 in stretch/sid, released in 2015). However, 58 packages in sid still build with automake1.11, released in 2009. This doesn't seem desirable for buster.
I am *not* planning to report these bugs as RC, unless the release team or the automake1.11 maintainer want to remove automake1.11 from buster entirely (if so, please let me know). 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 desirable to lock the build system to the specific version that upstream used. However, recent versions have been queueing up incompatible changes for 2.0 instead (as described in the Automake 1.14 release notes, <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2013-06/msg00009.html>) so maybe many of these packages can track 1.x indefinitely? A dd-list follows, generated by: grep-dctrl -FBuild-Depends,Build-Depends-Arch,Build-Depends-Indep \ automake1.11 \ /var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_*_source_Sources \ | dd-list --dctrl Nothing seems to have a runtime dependency on automake1.11, at least not on amd64 or i386. A couple of these packages build-depend on automake (>= 1.11) | automake1.11, but to be honest they'd probably be better off with just automake (>= 1.11) anyway, so I haven't filtered those out. Regards, S ---- dd-list of affected packages ---- Adrian Knoth <a...@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> jack-audio-connection-kit (U) Andrew Lee (李健秋) <ajq...@debian.org> scim-chewing (U) Andy Spencer <andy753...@gmail.com> aweather (U) Anibal Monsalve Salazar <ani...@debian.org> libnfsidmap Barry deFreese <bdefre...@debian.org> qonk (U) Ben Armstrong <sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> xpilot-ng Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> libjpeg6b libjpeg8 ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) <czc...@debian.org> scim-chewing (U) Christoph Egger <christ...@debian.org> warzone2100 (U) Chrysostomos Nanakos <cnana...@debian.org> tcpstat Chuan-kai Lin <ck...@debian.org> fam Clément Stenac <zorg...@debian.org> madplay (U) Debian Accessibility Team <debian-accessibil...@lists.debian.org> svox Debian Games Team <pkg-games-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> qonk warzone2100 Debian Gauche Maintainers <pkg-gauche-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> gauche Debian GCC Maintainers <debian-...@lists.debian.org> cloog-ppl Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packag...@lists.alioth.debian.org> trinityrnaseq Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> icecast2 jack-audio-connection-kit libshout pd-iemmatrix unicap Debian OCaml Maintainers <debian-ocaml-ma...@lists.debian.org> cairo-ocaml Debian PHP Maintainers <pkg-php-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org> php7.0 php7.1 Debian Printing Team <debian-print...@lists.debian.org> ijs Debian QA Group <packa...@qa.debian.org> agg aumix Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> ann aweather lhapdf Debian Science Team <debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> freefem3d Debian XMPP Maintainers <pkg-xmpp-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> gsasl Emanuele Rocca <e...@debian.org> urlview Florian Maier <cont...@marsmenschen.com> smartmontools (U) Free Ekanayaka <fr...@debian.org> jack-audio-connection-kit (U) Giacomo Catenazzi <c...@debian.org> g15mpd libg15render Giulio Paci <giuliop...@gmail.com> basilisk2 (U) Giuseppe Iuculano <iucul...@debian.org> smartmontools Guillaume Pellerin <yom...@altern.org> icecast2 (U) libshout (U) Hakan Ardo <ha...@debian.org> avr-libc gcc-avr HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai) <d...@debian.org> uim IME Packaging Team <pkg-ime-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> scim-chewing IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) <umlae...@debian.org> pd-iemmatrix (U) Jens Thiele <ka...@karme.de> gauche (U) Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> basilisk2 cstream icecast2 (U) ijs (U) jack-audio-connection-kit (U) kannel-sqlbox libshout (U) pd-iemmatrix (U) unicap (U) Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> smartmontools (U) Jordà Polo <jo...@ettin.org> exult Jorge Salamero Sanz <ben...@debian.org> gsasl (U) Jose Luis Tallon <jltal...@adv-solutions.net> libsieve Junichi Uekawa <dan...@debian.org> jack-audio-connection-kit (U) Jérémy Lal <kapo...@melix.org> basilisk2 (U) Kiwamu Okabe <kiw...@debian.or.jp> uim (U) Kurt Roeckx <k...@roeckx.be> madplay (U) Lifeng Sun <lifong...@gmail.com> lhapdf (U) Lior Kaplan <kap...@debian.org> php7.0 (U) php7.1 (U) Luca Bruno <lu...@debian.org> openocd (U) Mad Maintainers <pkg-mad-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> madplay Martín Ferrari <tin...@debian.org> qonk (U) Marvin Stark <m...@der-marv.de> syrep Mathieu Parent <sath...@debian.org> svox (U) Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> cloog-ppl (U) Michael Banck <mba...@debian.org> exult (U) Michael R. 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Robbins <s...@debian.org> nyquist Stéphane Glondu <glo...@debian.org> cairo-ocaml (U) Teemu Ikonen <tpiko...@gmail.com> ann (U) Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <casca...@minaslivre.org> gsasl (U) Tim Retout <dioc...@debian.org> enscript Tomas Pospisek <tpo_...@sourcepole.ch> mailsync Unit 193 <unit...@ubuntu.com> icecast2 (U) Uwe Hermann <u...@debian.org> openocd Vincent Cheng <vch...@debian.org> conky dbus-c++ Willi Mann <wi...@debian.org> squidview YAEGASHI Takeshi <yaega...@debian.org> gauche (U) Yaroslav Halchenko <deb...@onerussian.com> qwo Ying-Chun Liu <grandp...@gmail.com> libshout (U)
