FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Sat May 10 08:13:44 UTC 2008
On Mon, 5 May 2008 12:29:19 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > How comes you expect each and every tool in Fedora but the autotools to
> > be "current".
>
> That's it!
>
> OK, by Fedora 10 we need to start removing all sorts of not 'current'
> things that aren't up to modern standards.
>
> First, toolkits!
>
> We need to remove gtk1, qt3, and for pete's sake, Xaw and Xaw3d. All
> are obsolete, and users and developers are best served by upgrading
> to more recent toolkits such as Qt4 and GTK2.
>
> The following 258 packages need ported by Fedora 10, or they will
> be removed:
> k3b-1.0.4-6.fc9
> k3b-extras-nonfree-1.0.4-2.lvn9
Because of Qt 3.x based KDE 3.x? Funny decision so far.
> qt3-3.3.8b-12.fc9
> qt-4.3.4-11.fc9
??? Qt 4.x is current, isn't it?
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