FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Jonathan Underwood]

2008/5/6 Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin at ncsu.edu>:
>  In light of this, I have a proposal:
>
>  We fix our specs to not use autoconf, and remove the old versions as
> stated, but we keep them around, perhaps in another branch in CVS or simply
> removed from the F10 tag. Then we just wait for complaints. If someone comes
> in and says "I was actively using that" we can just slap it back in. After
> one release cycle we can flush the rest.

*I was actively using that*

Building xdvik and also a patched version to add in japanese support,
and also to force the build to use system installed libraries rather
than to build against locally bundled versions requires some hacking
and autoconfery. Yes, I am getting upstream fixing aspects of this,
and yes I will look at moving to a later autoconf, but please don't
remove the previous versions of autoconf or ban autotools from the
spec files.