FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Christopher Aillon]

On 05/05/2008 12:53 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Do you remember the gcc-4.3.0 recompilation campaign in Fedora some
> months ago? If people had adjusted their autotool's source files with
> the same engagement and submitted their changes upstream, for years ...
> this issue would not exist ....

If you want to bring up the gcc 4.3 switch, let's make this easy then:

I personally did a bunch of the gcc 4.3 porting for other people's 
packages including patching, rebuilding, etc.  How about someone return 
the favor and port mine to use new autotools?

Again, the bug is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104642

Someone posted a patch to the aforementioned bug which was rejected 
because it broke several requirements for Mozilla.  If someone fixes 
those and gets it committed upstream (I have commit access and can help 
do so once it is approved by the build team upstream), I am more than 
happy to consider withdrawing my objections to this proposal.

But, the likelihood of it happening for Firefox 3 is remote being that 
we're on the cusp of releasing it.  And since I doubt the next major 
release of Firefox will be out by F10, or even F11, we'll still need to 
support autoconf213 for a few more cycles.