[Vorbis-dev] new release monday

[Ralph Giles]

On 3-May-08, at 9:42 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:

> Ralph Giles wrote:
>>>  - libvorbis.spec is generated but it is shipped through EXTRA_DIST?
>> How do you suggest we ship it?
>
> Not at all as it's generated :-)

I see what you mean now. Does that work? I would have rpm would want  
to generated version to build the package.

> If the problem is the high Automake version I could hack
> a release script together that
> 1) backups Makefile.am
> 2) patches Makefile.am to require 1.10.1 and use dist-lzma
> 3) restore the backup
>
> Would you like that?

No, because then I'd have to upgrade my automake.

> No idea. As Autotools are perfectly installable without
> root privileges I'd say we can expect up to date Autotools
> from every developer. I'd say let's not live in the past
> unless we really have to.

I'm lazier than that. And this is another thing I hate about  
automake: there's no documentation for backwards compatibility.

> https://trac.xiph.org/changeset/14828

Thanks.

  -r