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 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?
Probably automake should have automake1 and automake2 binary packages once they release 2.0? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
