GNU bug report logs - #16057
Non-parallel test suite API changes in 1.13

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Package: automake;

Reported by: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad <at> behdad.org>

Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 01:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad <at> behdad.org>
To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 16057 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16057: Non-parallel test suite API changes in 1.13
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:38:20 -0500

On 13-12-05 05:28 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Why not? 1.13 is almost one year old now...

Why not?  Because I don't require any feature new in 1.13, yet it breaks my
package.  Also because it's in no long-term-support distro like Ubuntu 12.04.
I personally installed 1.13 and released a tarball with it, just to discover
that travis-ci.org, our automated continuous-build server, doesn't have
automake 1.13.  So now I have to patch that system, and ask all my developer /
testers to install automake 1.13.  All these not even because we use any
feature new in 1.13...

At least to allow fixing similar issues in the future, make AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
warn about unknown options but not err.

-- 
behdad
http://behdad.org/
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