FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Brian Pepple]

I received the following proposal from Karsten Hopp, which he would like
FESCo to make a decision on during this week's meeting (2008-05-08).
I'm forwarding it to the list, so that people can weigh-in on it.

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We are currently shipping an insane number of compatibility autofoo
packages which haven't seen any upstream maintenance for many years:

autoconf213-2.13-18.fc8.noarch.rpm   (9 years)
automake14-1.4p6-15.fc7.noarch.rpm   (6 years)
automake15-1.5-23.noarch.rpm         (7 years)
automake16-1.6.3-14.noarch.rpm       (6 years)
automake17-1.7.9-11.noarch.rpm       (4 1/2 years)

PROPOSAL: I'd like to keep just the following packages and would like to
have release engineering to block the older packages from Rawhide:
autoconf-2.61-10.fc9.noarch.rpm
automake-1.10.1-2.noarch.rpm

This is the complete list of rawhide packages requiring those ancient
autofoo packages, it is rather short and it should be doable to convert
those packages to current autofoo:

automake14 ax25-apps-0.0.6-2.fc9.src.rpm
automake14 gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-36.fc9.src.rpm
automake14 glib-1.2.10-29.fc9.src.rpm
automake14 gtk+-1.2.10-61.fc9.src.rpm
automake14 sgml-common-0.6.3-23.fc9.src.rpm
automake14 WindowMaker-0.92.0-17.fc9.src.rpm

automake15 nss_db-2.2-40.fc9.src.rpm

automake16 kyum-0.7.5-11.fc9.src.rpm
automake16 qalculate-kde-0.9.6-5.fc9.src.rpm
automake16 sinjdoc-0.5-6.fc9.src.rpm

automake17 cegui-0.5.0b-7.fc9.src.rpm
automake17 ekg2-0.1.1-4.fc9.src.rpm
automake17 gtk2-2.12.9-5.fc9.src.rpm
automake17 nautilus-open-terminal-0.9-2.fc9.src.rpm

autoconf213 esc-1.0.1-9.fc9.src.rpm
autoconf213 glib-1.2.10-29.fc9.src.rpm
autoconf213 gtk+-1.2.10-61.fc9.src.rpm
autoconf213 pam_smb-1.1.7-8.2.2.src.rpm
autoconf213 xdvik-22.84.13-17.fc9.src.rpm

Maintainers are encouraged to switch to more recent releases of the
autoconf tools and/or work with upstream to get this done. They also
should make sure if it is really necessary to run p.e. automake at all
during the build process.

Later,
/B
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Brian Pepple <bpepple at fedoraproject.org>

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