Re: [PATCH] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> skribis:

>> For Automake, I don’t think it makes sense, though.  Or did you have
>> anything special in mind?
>
> Dependencies.  For instance, you're updating Foo that requires Bar.
> (There is Bar-41 in the repo, but this version of Foo requires 42.
> Also, Bar-42 has some backward incompatible changes.)  If you update Bar
> to 42, it will break other packages.  I suggest to keep three versions:
> the latest version, second-to-last, and third-to-last.

I don’t understand what you mean.  There can be as many different
versions of Automake as you want in the user’s store, and they will
happily coexist.

But that doesn’t mean that the distro itself should keep providing
several versions.  This is a completely orthogonal question.

Or did I misunderstand something?

Ludo’.