Brian, I understand, but as I already said, compat package can lead to unwillingness to move forward to autoconf-2.71. For example, we can have a compat package for f35 to have time to deal with the problems, but certainly not for f36 or f37. After release of autoconf-2.71, I expect most of the upstream packages moving to autoconf-2.71 in one year time, so hopefully no compat package will be needed.
Why are you not thinking of moving parted to autoconf-2.71 ? Are there any special reasons for not doing this? Thanks. Ondrej On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 6:36 PM Brian C. Lane <b...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 08:14:17AM +0100, Ondrej Dubaj wrote: > > Brian, > > > > you are right there are some changes which are now backward compatible. > > That's the reason why we need cross-component cooperation from other > > maintainers to detect these pieces and potentially report them to > upstream > > and see if they are willing to fix them. Another option is also to > create a > > compat package for autoconf-2.69 for f35, but it can lead to a result, > > where some of the maintainers/upstreams will never use autoconf-2.71. > > I think we need to create a 2.69 compat package. I certainly have no > current plans to switch upstream parted to 2.71 and while I now have a > wonderful 1.8M patch that fixes it for Fedora I'd rather just use the > upstream tar release with 2.69 until we're comfortable moving. > > Having 2.71 available is valuable, so both should be packaged, but it > should not be a requirement at this point. > > Brian > > -- > Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart > >
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