FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Matthias Clasen]

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 18:22 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 21:45 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 11:57 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 17:48 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> This step is way over due. It also will teach maintainers not run the
> > >>> autotools while building.
> > >> Thats your personal preference. 
> > > 
> > > Your liberty to think this.
> > 
> > Otherwise, it would be useful to have packaging guidelines officially on 
> > to the recommended method to deal with this.
> The key to avoid autotool compatibility issues is simple: Do not
> generate autotool generated files while building.
> Generate them off-line.

...which won't be easy if the autotool versions you need to generate
them are kicked out.