Automake 1.9 breakage

[Pawel Salek]

On 08/02/2004 06:40:34 AM, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 08:57 -0700, Steve G wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The new automake 1.9 breaks several packages.
> 
> A package should *always* call a specific version of automake.  If a
> package directly invokes "automake", that's a bug.  It should instead
> call automake-1.8, automake-1.4, whatever is known to work.

What if a package is known to work with all released automake versions: 
Should it still hardcode one of them? I have a feeling it it is not a  
good idea: will it not force users to have all possible versions of  
automake installed just in case?

Pawel