FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Hans de Goede]

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:
> 

<snip>

> 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
> 

> This is the complete list of rawhide packages requiring those ancient
> autofoo packages, it is rather short and it should be doable to convert
> those packages to current autofoo:
> 
> automake14 ax25-apps-0.0.6-2.fc9.src.rpm
> automake14 gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-36.fc9.src.rpm
> automake14 glib-1.2.10-29.fc9.src.rpm
> automake14 gtk+-1.2.10-61.fc9.src.rpm
> automake14 sgml-common-0.6.3-23.fc9.src.rpm
> automake14 WindowMaker-0.92.0-17.fc9.src.rpm
> 
> automake15 nss_db-2.2-40.fc9.src.rpm
> 
> automake16 kyum-0.7.5-11.fc9.src.rpm
> automake16 qalculate-kde-0.9.6-5.fc9.src.rpm
> automake16 sinjdoc-0.5-6.fc9.src.rpm
> 
> automake17 cegui-0.5.0b-7.fc9.src.rpm
> automake17 ekg2-0.1.1-4.fc9.src.rpm
> automake17 gtk2-2.12.9-5.fc9.src.rpm
> automake17 nautilus-open-terminal-0.9-2.fc9.src.rpm
> 
> autoconf213 esc-1.0.1-9.fc9.src.rpm
> autoconf213 glib-1.2.10-29.fc9.src.rpm
> autoconf213 gtk+-1.2.10-61.fc9.src.rpm
> autoconf213 pam_smb-1.1.7-8.2.2.src.rpm
> autoconf213 xdvik-22.84.13-17.fc9.src.rpm
> 
> Maintainers are encouraged to switch to more recent releases of the
> autoconf tools and/or work with upstream to get this done. They also
> should make sure if it is really necessary to run p.e. automake at all
> during the build process.
> 
> Later,
> /B
>