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Date:      Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:42:18 -0500
From:      Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports/35927: Permission sought to commit this automake 1.6 upgrade
Message-ID:  <20020316174218.GA23664@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020316093752.B72388@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <200203151849.g2FIn4F38189@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020315195523.GB53073@squall.waterspout.com> <20020316093752.B72388@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 09:37:52AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 02:55:23PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 10:49:04AM -0800, obrien@FreeBSD.org wrote:
>> > Synopsis: Permission sought to commit this automake 1.6 upgrade
>> 
>> Why do you need this version upgrade?  I have heard from several
>> people that there is serious breakage in 1.6 vs. 1.5.  I will get
>> specifics ASAP.
>
>Some projects I work on desires the latest released of tools.
>Also the same reasons that we don't want to always remain stale on things
>(which we seem to be doing lately).  If 1.6 is truely a disaster, we
>should try to figure out if the automake people consider it one also --
>ie, will 1.7 have the same issues and we must live with this change; or
>1.7 will fix them and be more like 1.5 in what ever respect you've heard
>about.

David, why don't you help me get ports/35710 completed? That's a repocopy
and creation of automake-devel, that will allow you to do what you need without
replacing a criticial system tool with an untested new version.

-- 
AlanE
"When the going gets tough, the weird turn pro." - HST


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