Re: Periodic automake cleanup: removal of automake1.7 [and 1 more messages]

2011-11-12 Thread Eric Dorland
* Ian Jackson (ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk) wrote: > Eric Dorland writes ("Re: Periodic automake cleanup: removal of automake1.7"): > > The versions after 1.4 were where backwards-incompatible changes > > started showing up. As a very unscientific census using google c

Re: Periodic automake cleanup: removal of automake1.7 [and 1 more messages]

2011-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Eric Dorland writes ("Re: Periodic automake cleanup: removal of automake1.7"): > The versions after 1.4 were where backwards-incompatible changes > started showing up. As a very unscientific census using google code > search, there are about 36,800 Makefile.in's generated

Re: Periodic automake cleanup: removal of automake1.7

2011-10-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi! Am 16.10.2011 23:59, schrieb Eric Dorland: > > Now clearly we don't need automake 1.4 for Debian's sake, but some > users might still be interested in it for some people to compile old > pieces of software. If there's no such interest, then I have no > problems dropping it. I don't think we

Re: Periodic automake cleanup: removal of automake1.7

2011-10-16 Thread Eric Dorland
* Josh Triplett (j...@joshtriplett.org) wrote: > Eric Dorland wrote: > > * Paul Wise (p...@debian.org) wrote: > > > Shouldn't automake1.4 be first in the queue? > > > > We could do automake1.4. I hesitate because there may still be older > > software out there that wants automake 1.4's particular

Re: Periodic automake cleanup: removal of automake1.7

2011-10-16 Thread Josh Triplett
Eric Dorland wrote: > * Paul Wise (p...@debian.org) wrote: > > Shouldn't automake1.4 be first in the queue? > > We could do automake1.4. I hesitate because there may still be older > software out there that wants automake 1.4's particular set of > quirks. What do other people think? Why does auto

Re: Periodic automake cleanup: removal of automake1.7

2011-10-16 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:20:36PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > Rene Engelhard >libtextcat Will not be done. I'll not change the build of a dead package (which already would be replaced with the libexttextcat source package if #644287 was fixed - which doesn't have a build-dependency on aut

Re: Periodic automake cleanup: removal of automake1.7

2011-10-15 Thread Eric Dorland
* Paul Wise (p...@debian.org) wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > As has become custom, it's time for removal of another old automake > > version. This round it's automake 1.7's turn. > > Shouldn't automake1.4 be first in the queue? We could do automake1.4. I hes

Re: Periodic automake cleanup: removal of automake1.7

2011-10-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Eric Dorland wrote: > As has become custom, it's time for removal of another old automake > version. This round it's automake 1.7's turn. Shouldn't automake1.4 be first in the queue? > Debian QA Group > apachetop Made a QA upload of this. > quiteinsanegimpp

Periodic automake cleanup: removal of automake1.7

2011-10-15 Thread Eric Dorland
As has become custom, it's time for removal of another old automake version. This round it's automake 1.7's turn. Below is a list of packages that build depend on automake1.7. Please fix them by: 1. Not build depending on automake in the first place. It may be completely unnecessary, or you can