On Sun, 11 Jun 2017 17:20:49 +0200
Kristian Fiskerstrand <k...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 06/11/2017 05:17 PM, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> >> We can always patch the eclass at that point if that is still a big
> >> concern, but I fundamentally agree with William on this, starting
> >> point
> >> should be fixing it upstream, so can start with a tracking bug on
> >> affected packages.  
> > That's a complete useless waste of time, to track some ancient
> > packages that don't get any upstream update anyway. The active ones
> > have updated it long ago. And it'd be a joke to propose last riting
> > for the reason of a file being named configure.in instead of
> > configure.ac.
> > 
> >   
> 
> That determination can be made on a package-by-package basis and fixed
> in ebuild if needed.
> 

Funny thing is that packages still using autoconf 2.1* don't get
any warning and packages setting WANT_AUTOCONF to some older version
will never break...

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