autoconf and epel-5

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Mar 3 02:44:15 UTC 2009


Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
>> Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>>> Most package sources in SCMs don't include those files, when they are in
>>> the tarballs it is for convenience AFAIU.
>>>   
>> You are wrong - RTFM, e.g. info automake, info standards.
> 
> Software not including autotools-generated files in their SCM is actually
> pretty common.

And where is the problem?

Upstream maintainers are supposed to know which versions of the 
autotools they support.




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