RFC: drop old autofoo spackages

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Feb 15 16:01:00 UTC 2007


Karsten Hopp wrote:

> We're currently shipping several quite old automake/autoconf packages 
> just to keep
> a few other old packages building. I'd like to drop the following packages:
> 
> autoconf213   (8 years since the last upstream maintenance)
> automake14    (5 years since the last upstream maintenance)
> automake15    (6 years since the last upstream maintenance)
> automake16    (5 years since the last upstream maintenance)

By drop, you mean orphan? (:

Perhaps someone more interested in the legacy aspects could take over 
maintainership of these.

Some of these *really* are needed by some of the quasi-legacy 
apps/libraries Fedora (Extras) still contains.

-- Rex




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