Re: more build sherrif-ery (and a touch of auto*)
- From: Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>
- To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- Cc: James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>, louie novell com, Jordi Mallach <jordi sindominio net>, GNOME Desktop Devel <desktop-devel-list gnome org>, Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>
- Subject: Re: more build sherrif-ery (and a touch of auto*)
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:40:54 +0100
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
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