Re: an update to automake-1.11?

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 14:05 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:

> But is this the type of upgrade that makes sense in general? It seems to
> me that we should be very conservative in upgrading build tools,
> especially in "maintenance mode" distributions like F9 and F10.

Agreed, and if there was a truly compelling reason for the upgrade, one
would expect it to be mentioned in the update description.

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_guidelines

Cheers,
Mark.