FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 10:59 -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
> I received the following proposal from Karsten Hopp, which he would like
> FESCo to make a decision on during this week's meeting (2008-05-08).
> I'm forwarding it to the list, so that people can weigh-in on it.
> 
> ---
> 
> We are currently shipping an insane number of compatibility autofoo
> packages which haven't seen any upstream maintenance for many years:
> 
> autoconf213-2.13-18.fc8.noarch.rpm   (9 years)
> automake14-1.4p6-15.fc7.noarch.rpm   (6 years)
> automake15-1.5-23.noarch.rpm         (7 years)
> automake16-1.6.3-14.noarch.rpm       (6 years)
> automake17-1.7.9-11.noarch.rpm       (4 1/2 years)

> PROPOSAL: I'd like to keep just the following packages and would like to
> have release engineering to block the older packages from Rawhide:
> autoconf-2.61-10.fc9.noarch.rpm
> automake-1.10.1-2.noarch.rpm
+1

This step is way over due. It also will teach maintainers not run the
autotools while building.

Ralf