FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "RC" == Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> writes:

RC> This is a non-issue if upstream uses the autotools properly,
RC> i.e. is shipping pre-generated files and doesn't run them while
RC> building.

The upstream developers still need to have autoconf213 in order to
actually develop the package, though.  Hence they still need to get
that old version of the package from somewhere.  I see no reason why
Fedora shouldn't simply provide it for them.

 - J<