[bug#54412] [PATCH] python: use the posix_prefix sysconfig scheme on Debian

2024-01-23 Thread Karl Berry
Guess it's time to close this one about the Python scheme to use with Debian. We'll see how it turns out with the next pretest ... --thanks, karl.

[bug#67670] [PATCH] Revise tests for file mtime resolution again.

2024-01-23 Thread Karl Berry
Guess it's time to close this one about the subsecond mtimes, and we'll see what happens next time. (For reference: see also https://bugs.gnu.org/68325 where we don't try for a millisecond any more ...)

[bug#68674] recommending autoreconf -f when version mismatch

2024-01-23 Thread Karl Berry
The patch below changes the wording of the "version mismatch" errors to recommend running autoreconf -f. If anyone sees any problems with the idea, or the wording, let me know. I discovered this when trying out the last automake pretest. After configuring with the new automake, I then went back to