Re: Debian-specific Autoconf patches

[Ben Pfaff]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> * Paul Eggert wrote on Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:33:53AM CEST:
>> Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
>> I don't yet see why the currently-installed changes make things worse.
>
> With all due respect, I am slowly running out of time checking whether
> the new version now breaks oodles of packages, or not.  

I could update the Debian package to the current CVS and we'd
find out pretty fast ;-)

I'm willing to give it a try, if anyone thinks it's a good
idea...

> I *know* the version from the first related patch before
> 2006-05-26 worked decently with all those packages -- so why
> are we not simply taking that?

That would be my preference as downstream Debian maintainer,
although I'm sure that my vote doesn't count for much.
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