[python-committers] autoconf 2.70

[Eric V. Smith]

> On Nov 24, 2016, at 10:00 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:

> Right, tracking those artifacts is a long standing policy and exists
> for good reasons.  Our policy is that the committed changes should
> be done with the "right" version of the tool to minimize churn, and
> I think we should maintain that policy even if we sometimes screw up.

Agreed. 

> (I thought we had actually introduced a check for it in the Makefile, but
> I guess not...that would make it inconvenient for someone to intentionally
> use a different version for a custom build.)

Would it be possible to add a commit hook? It seems like that would be the correct place to catch it. 

Eric.