Re: FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Matej Cepl <mcepl redhat com>]

On Mon, 05 May 2008 11:33:11 -0700, Alan scripst:
> I build a fair amount of software that is not in the repository.  Some
> of it requires crufty old versions of various toolkits.  Having those
> toolkits go away makes it much harder to get this packages to run.  If I
> have an older version that does compile, I can determine if it even
> works at all.  (Which happens far too often for me. *cough* *cough*
> numerix *cough*)

So, OK, why don't we carry gcc 2.95? There are still many pieces of 
software which needs it.

Matěj

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