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

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

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