Re: an update to automake-1.11?

[Braden McDaniel <braden endoframe com>]

On 6/30/09 2:05 PM, Owen Taylor wrote:
> I was rather surprised to see:
>
>   https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-6661
>   https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-6076
>   https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-6370
>
> Where the automake was upgraded to 1.11 for F9, F10, and F11.

Wow.  That *is* surprising.

> But is this the type of upgrade that makes sense in general?

No.

Even if Automake had a better track record of compatibility, upgrading a 
build tool to something that isn't simply a bugfix release does not make 
sense *in general* for released versions of Fedora.  Special 
circumstances that might prompt such a move can always be discussed, of 
course.  But this sort of thing incurs way too much risk.

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