Hello,

In the near future, there is a plan to merge autoconf-2.71 to rawhide. Due
to the size of the change and possible breakage of multiple packages going
FTBFS. The number of these packages should not be many, currently we have
~32 opened FTBFS trackers according to autoconf-2.71, where the majority of
them are just ignored by maintainers [1]. This can also be a possibility to
remove unnecessary packages from Fedora. After merging the change, there
should be a mechanism for validating. From my perspective, it is effective
to rebuild dependent packages (~1700 packages). After the rebuild, there
should not be many FTBFS packages, but according to the change there will
be some. There was enough time (~6 months) for the maintainers to prepare
for this change.

If there are any concerns or other opinions about the steps after merging
the change, please share your thoughts and we can discuss them here.

Thanks very much!

Regards,
Ondrej

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1942967

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 7:52 AM Ondrej Dubaj <odu...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello, according to the size of this change and the possible breakage of 
> multiple packages before f35 mass rebuild, we decided (team working on this 
> change) to postpone this change to early lifecycle of f36, where we will have 
> enough time to resolve any problems until f36 mass rebuild.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 5:18 PM Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 05:28:07PM +0100, Ondrej Dubaj wrote:
>> > Currently, we are trying to stay away from the compat package and with
>> the
>> > help of other package maintainers trying to fix the failures. We will
>> give
>> > time to react accordingly and see other possible steps in a few weeks
>> time.
>> >
>> > Currently multiple FTBFS bugs in bugzilla were created according to
>> > autoconf-2.71. More information available here:
>> >
>> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Autoconf_271
>>
>> Whats the current status of this Change?
>>
>> It didn't land before mass rebuild. Is it still planned for f35?
>>
>> kevin
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