Hi,
Thank you for the update Ian. It was not meant the way every packager is ignoring the opened issues, we appreciate your work on this autoconf-2.71 issue. Sorry for generalizing this.
Glad to hear that it will build OK today.
HEADS-UP:
Starting with merging autoconf-2.71 changes. This week a scratch-build for all dependent packages will be executed. If you want to test your packages by yourself, you can execute your own scratch-build and see if it works properly. I will write here when autoconf-2.71 will be stable.
Thanks for your cooperation and hope to see very few failures this week :)
Regards, Ondrej
On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 2:36 PM Ian Kent raven@themaw.net wrote:
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@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@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:
Whats the current status of this Change?
It didn't land before mass rebuild. Is it still planned for f35?
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