Bug#751796: gnutls26: dh-autoreconf (patch available)

Andreas Metzler ametzler at bebt.de
Sat Jun 28 05:30:47 UTC 2014


On 2014-06-27 Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Thanks for replying.

>> My first thought is that I am a little bit reluctant to add a
>> dependency on an old automake version. The automake maintainers might
>> decide to decruft and drop old versions if possible and I would rather
>> not have gnutls as a blocker.

> Okay, that is certainly understandable.

> I will take a look at using a newer automake, and the implied
> changes/fixes it might need.

Thank you.

> Would you be OK with carrying a patch for that matter?

Yes, sure. Given that it probably will not be big and gnutls26 does
not get new upstream releases there should not be a maintainance cost.

Please note that I will try very hard to get rid of gnutls26 in
jessie.

cu Andreas

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