an update to automake-1.11?
Braden McDaniel
braden at endoframe.com
Tue Jun 30 21:30:41 UTC 2009
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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