Re: autoupdate fun

[Ben Pfaff]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> * Ben Pfaff wrote on Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 06:28:08PM CET:
>> Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
>> >
>> > The fun with AC_LANG_SAVE is not really new, BTW:
>> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2002-12/msg00067.html aka
>> > http://bugs.debian.org/172858 is a report against 2.57, but apparently
>> > the bug was hidden in 2.58.  Let's fix that now, once and for all.
>> 
>> I'm not sure how I ended up CC'd on this thread.  My guess is
>> that it's because I'm Debian's maintainer for its autoconf
>> package.  Are you trying to say that I should commit this bug fix
>> to the Debian package for Autoconf 2.59?
>
> No, I'm saying we're about to fix a bug that was once reported against
> Debian's autoconf package, which you forwarded to an autoconf list, and
> which was hidden but not really fixed in between.

I didn't recognize that--thanks for pointing it out!
I'll update the bug.
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