Debian Bug report logs - #283301
autoconf: small documentation obsolescences

Toggle useless messages

Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Cc: RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org

Subject: autoconf: small documentation obsolescences

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 15:14:08 -0800

Package: autoconf
Version: 2.59-8
Severity: minor

The info documentation, and presumably anything else derived from the
same source, lists this reference
   (6) Autoconf Developer Page, <http://sources.redhat.com/autoconf/>
on the Pointers  page.  That doesn't seem to work anymore, and a quick
poke around sources.redhat.com did not reveal a successor (just links
to the software itself or the autobook). 

The Libtool page, toward the end, says "Although Libtool, like
Autoconf, can be used on its own"  This is misleading: libtoolize
requires autoconf.  Someone on the libtool list asserted flatly that
libtool itself requires autoconf; our own Debian packager says that is
not strictly true except for libtool.  See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=282725 for more on
this point.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26advncdfs
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages autoconf depends on:
ii  debianutils                   2.8.4      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  m4                            1.4.2-1    a macro processing language
ii  perl                          5.8.4-3    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 283301-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>

To: Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>

Cc: 283301-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#283301: autoconf: small documentation obsolescences

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:29:52 -0800

Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org> writes:

> The info documentation, and presumably anything else derived from the
> same source, lists this reference
>    (6) Autoconf Developer Page, <http://sources.redhat.com/autoconf/>
> on the Pointers  page.  That doesn't seem to work anymore, and a quick
> poke around sources.redhat.com did not reveal a successor (just links
> to the software itself or the autobook). 

Autoconf doesn't have any info documentation anymore.  It was
non-free and has been removed.  If you're aware of other
references to this in the Autoconf package then I'll fix those.
For now I'm closing the bug.
-- 
"The sound of peacocks being shredded can't possibly be
 any worse than the sound of peacocks not being shredded."
Tanuki the Raccoon-dog in the Monastery

Message #15 received at 283301@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>

To: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>

Cc: Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>, 283301@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#283301: autoconf: small documentation obsolescences

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:16:02 -0800

On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 04:29:52PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org> writes:
> 
> > The info documentation, and presumably anything else derived from the
> > same source, lists this reference
> >    (6) Autoconf Developer Page, <http://sources.redhat.com/autoconf/>
> > on the Pointers  page.  That doesn't seem to work anymore, and a quick
> > poke around sources.redhat.com did not reveal a successor (just links
> > to the software itself or the autobook). 
> 
> Autoconf doesn't have any info documentation anymore.  It was
> non-free and has been removed.  If you're aware of other
> references to this in the Autoconf package then I'll fix those.
> For now I'm closing the bug.

OK.  I forwarded this report upstream, so they can deal with it if
they choose.

I'm a little surprised that the docs are going entirely; I thought
they'd just be moved to non-free.

Message #20 received at 283301@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>

To: Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>

Cc: 283301@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#283301: autoconf: small documentation obsolescences

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:47:32 -0800

Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org> writes:

> I'm a little surprised that the docs are going entirely; I thought
> they'd just be moved to non-free.

I don't package non-free software.  Some other Debian developer
may package the Autoconf docs though.  There's a RFP out on that
now.
-- 
"To prepare for the writing of Software,
 the writer must first become one with it,
 sometimes two."
--W. C. Carlson

Send a report that this bug log contains spam.