Brian,
I understand, but as I already said, compat package can lead to unwillingness to move forward to autoconf-2.71. For example, we can have a compat package for f35 to have time to deal with the problems, but certainly not for f36 or f37. After release of autoconf-2.71, I expect most of the upstream packages moving to autoconf-2.71 in one year time, so hopefully no compat package will be needed.
Why are you not thinking of moving parted to autoconf-2.71 ? Are there any special reasons for not doing this?
Thanks.
Ondrej