FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 02:02:50PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> It would have forced upstreams to learn about their long-term
> lazyness/sloppyness is going to evolve into "badness" by being
> confronted with a "the train has left the station" effect.

Packages that has not been released since long can still use old
autotools version without that being an issue. And then it is practical
to be able to rerun the autotools for such packages.

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Pat