an update to automake-1.11?

Braden McDaniel braden at endoframe.com
Mon Jul 6 22:57:04 UTC 2009


On 7/6/09 6:10 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

[snip]

> Introducing side-effects is something to watch out for but
> patching configure instead of the true source is a short term fix, not a
> long term solution.

*Any* patch should be viewed as a short-term fix.  A patch that needs to 
persist indefinitely suggests broken maintainership somewhere along the 
line--either upstream, of the Fedora package in question, or elsewhere 
in Fedora's infrastructure.

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