Re: Post-stretch mass bug filing: build-depending on automake1.11

2017-06-19 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 at 17:36:30 +, Simon McVittie wrote: > 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 buil

Re: Post-stretch mass bug filing: build-depending on automake1.11

2017-03-14 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 at 00:03:21 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The relevant question is whether there is a non-zero amount of packages > where a 1.11 -> 1.15 switch would be hard. Yes. Based on my admittedly hazy recollections of upgrading the Autotools build systems in upstream projects across that

Re: Post-stretch mass bug filing: build-depending on automake1.11

2017-03-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 05:36:30PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > 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 b

Re: Post-stretch mass bug filing: build-depending on automake1.11

2017-03-13 Thread Eric Dorland
* Paul Wise (p...@debian.org) wrote: > 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 compatib

Re: Post-stretch mass bug filing: build-depending on automake1.11

2017-03-13 Thread Paul Wise
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 desir

Re: Post-stretch mass bug filing: build-depending on automake1.11

2017-03-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 1:36 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: > Paul Wise >warzone2100 (U) I've talked to folks on the upstream IRC channel and it appears to be compatible with automake 1.14 so the latest version will probably work. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Post-stretch mass bug filing: build-depending on automake1.11

2017-03-12 Thread Eric Dorland
Hi Simon, * Simon McVittie (s...@debian.org) wrote: > 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 a

Post-stretch mass bug filing: build-depending on automake1.11

2017-03-12 Thread Simon McVittie
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 fo