FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Christopher Aillon]

On 05/06/2008 01:08 PM, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 May 2008 11:02:33 Christopher Aillon wrote:
>> he path to removing autoconf213 lies in someone patching upstream Firefox
>> (along with whatever other packages still uses autoconf213) to use newer
>> autotools and then waiting several Fedora release cycles, because this
>> change is almost certainly not going to happen ever in Firefox 3.  Get it
>> changed for Firefox 4 and when that rolls around in F13??, we can talk about
>> dropping it.
> 
> I agree with this. Maybe we should have a project in F10 that does the 
> migration work so that a future Fedora can remove the old packages. 
> 
> About 4 years ago, I noticed a lot of redundancy and took it upon myself to 
> migrate packages to newer tools. I was able to move all of the core packages, 
> in about a day, off of old autoconf and automake to the current releases. I 
> also took the liberty of moving things to bison as there was no need for 
> byacc.
> 
> I never ran into a package that could not be ported. I did run into packages 
> that took some effort. :)

Firefox will probably take some effort :-)

If someone with the knowledge and ambition wants to do the work, I will 
help as best I can.  The bug once again is 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104642