[Python-Dev] Bumping autoconf from 2.68 to 2.69

[Trent Nelson]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 08:23:00AM -0700, Brett Cannon wrote:
>    On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com>
>    wrote:
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>      On 10/16/2012 09:47 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>      > On Oct 16, 2012, at 05:32 AM, Trent Nelson wrote:
>      >
>      >> Anyway, back to the original question: does anyone know of reasons
>      >> we shouldn't bump to 2.69? A Any known incompatibilities?
>      >
>      > There will be problems building with 2.69 on Ubuntus older than
>      > 12.10, and Debians older than wheezy.
>      >
>      > % rmadison autoconf autoconf | A  A  2.61-4 | A  A  A  A  hardy |
>      source,
>      > all autoconf | 2.65-3ubuntu1 | A  A  A  A  lucid | source, all
>      autoconf |
>      > 2.67-2ubuntu1 | A  A  A  A  natty | source, all autoconf |
>      2.68-1ubuntu1 |
>      > oneiric | source, all autoconf | 2.68-1ubuntu2 | A  A  A  precise |
>      > source, all autoconf | 2.69-1ubuntu1 | A  A  A  quantal | source, all
>      %
>      > rmadison -u debian autoconf autoconf | 2.67-2 | squeeze | source, all
>      > autoconf | 2.69-1 | wheezy A | source, all autoconf | 2.69-1 | sid
>      > | source, all
>      >
>      > FWIW, precise is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, so it carries Python 2.7 and 3.2.
>      > I think it would be fine to update the default branch (i.e. 3.4), but
>      > I'm not sure what benefit you gain from making this change to stable
>      > branches, and you could potentially cause build problems, which you
>      > may not find out about for a while, e.g. when 2.7.4 is released and
>      > all the distros go to update.
> 
>      Agreed: A this is really the same issue as bumping the VisualStudio
>      version (or any other build tooling) inside a release line: A too much
>      potential for breakage for little gain.
> 
>    I think Barry's suggestion of updating default and leaving stable versions
>    alone is a good one.A 

    Bumped 3.4 to 2.69 in 79763:74b95194ba86!

        Trent.