On Tue, 2021-08-24 at 10:53 +0200, Ondrej Dubaj wrote:
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.
Not everyone is ignoring the bugs I have been working on the am-utils
package for this.
The package is very old and it utilizes autoconf very heavily.
Most of the autoconf noise is use of obsolete macros and I have updated
this were I can but there are some things I simply can't fix and some
things that shouldn't be changed.
I'll keep coming back to it over time since the changes I have made or
(rather will be committing over the weekend) do allow the package to
build and function on F33 and build in the Copr updated autoconf
environment.
I expect it will build ok on Monday.
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 <odubaj(a)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 <kevin(a)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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