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tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, KAM_SHORT, MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Cygwin package maintainer discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 16:36:17 -0000 On 12/2/2021 8:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps wrote: > On Dec 2 14:18, ASSI wrote: >> As I said, I haven't looked at it in any detail, but it seems that >> autoconf is already multi-version, so I guess it would be possible to >> introduce an autoconf2.7 package in addition to the existing two. >> That's a slightly wonky way to do that when we expect to later on just >> replace 2.69 with 2.71, though. > > Don't do that. https://lwn.net/Articles/839395/ > > autoconf 2.70 and later are new, backward incompatible versions, so they > should go into a new-and-shiny-and-not-yet-existing autoconf2.7 package. Does anyone know what other distros are doing? The only one I checked is Fedora. It looks like Fedora 35 simply replaced 2.69 by 2.71, after a long "heads-up" period for maintainers to fix their packages to build with 2.71. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6DTWVJRXLC6SOYE6ZBO6KALWMKA2PMFM/ Ken