Re: more build sherrif-ery (and a touch of auto*)
- From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- To: Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>
- Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>, James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>, Jordi Mallach <jordi sindominio net>, GNOME Desktop Devel <desktop-devel-list gnome org>, louie novell com
- Subject: Re: more build sherrif-ery (and a touch of auto*)
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:46:14 -0500
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 20:40 +0100, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
>
> 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 :)
That sounds fine, I'm just saying as long as only known versions are
used, i.e. packages should not be "auto-upgraded" to an automake that
may not be compatible.
Essentially each package should have an automake version whitelist, not
blacklist.
Havoc
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