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Re: Automake 1.7 released
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* Alexandre Duret-Lutz (duret_g@lrde.epita.fr) wrote:
> >>> "Eric" =3D=3D Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> writes:
>=20
> Eric> Is this version backwards compatible with 1.6? Or will it break on
> Eric> some Makefile.am's that worked with automake 1.6?=20
>=20
> The day we receive such a bug report we can answer this
> question. Otherwise we will never know...
>=20
> Eric> Just wanting to know if i'll need to make an automake1.7
> Eric> package in debian.
>=20
> Since both versions can be installed alongside I suggest you keep
> both packages until the dust settle down.
>=20
> (I haven't followed Debian's lists recently. What's up with the
> plan of changing all packages to depend on an explicit automake
> version, so that `automake' can become the latest release?)
I still need to figure out all the packages that build-depend on
automake incorrectly, and file bugs on them. I'm not sure I will ever
make the latest release of automake in the package named automake,
since if something similar to the 1.4->1.5 transition happens again,
people will be pissed off. But I hope to have all the automake
packages Provides: automake so that people can depend on automake if
they need just some version of it. =20
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Eric Dorland <dorland@lords.com>
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