Re: more build sherrif-ery (and a touch of auto*)

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>]

tor, 11,.11.2004 kl. 12.01 -0500, skrev Havoc Pennington:
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 23:28 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
> > If a package works with multiple automake versions, it is best to pick 
> > the newest release, since the older versions contain known bugs (based 
> > on the contents of the NEWS file).
> 
> Packages should never "symlink" to unknown future/possible-incompatible
> releases. That's like having a function that does something undefined,
> or calling parse_some_unknown_format() on a file of known format.
> 
> Packages should only use names (e.g. the automake-1.x names) that have
> an interface contract.

I got the impression that James meant that if a package will build with
multiple automake versions it's better to stick with the newest release
since that has more bugfixes etc. We probably have packages that *could*
use anything from 1.6-1.9 without problems? Or maybe I misunderstood
James totally :)

Cheers
Kjartan