FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> I'm not sure I can go along with this.  I'm sure we'd all agree that
> there's no point in carrying old versions of various pieces of
> software for no reason, but we shouldn't drop them all just because
> they're not current.  Instead we should (periodically) evaluate why we
> have those in the distro and decide if we want to continue to have
> them.  So autoconf213 is needed for firefox development.  That's
> certainly a valid reason, and it should be documented somewhere (in
> the autoconf213 spec, maybe) so that we won't forget next year when
> someone again asks why we still have autoconf213 around.
> 
> Perhaps we can port a few packages over to a recent automake and get
> rid of some of the old versions.  It certainly wouldn't be a bad
> thing.
> 
+1

OTOH, if Karsten doesn't want to maintain all of the compat auto* 
packages anymore he should certainly feel free to orphan them and let 
people who need them take them over.

-Toshio