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LCA: Disintermediating distributions

LCA: Disintermediating distributions

Posted Feb 7, 2008 17:32 UTC (Thu) by stevenj (guest, #421)
In reply to: LCA: Disintermediating distributions by bronson
Parent article: LCA: Disintermediating distributions

You are talking about different things. Anyone actively developing a program is going to want to use a recent version of autotools. The older versions in Debian are only there to build programs that have not been seriously updated in several years.

This is no different from the reason why Debian ships multiple versions of Python, or gcc, or many other development tools.


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