Bug#992810: grass: please migrate away from autoconf2.13

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/560

On 8/23/21 7:23 PM, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> your package build-depends on autoconf2.13, which is obsolete and
> orphaned in Debian.

I'd love to, but upstream doesn't support it yet. Not much I can do
about that.

> Please investigate migrating away from autoconf2.13, possibly to
> autoconf 2.69 or newer (package name "autoconf").
> 
> I see Bas already filed a bug report upstream: https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/560

I'll nag upstream in that issue, but don't keep your hopes up.

Hopefully they'll fix their autoconf support to enable the 2.13 removal
before the bookworm release.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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