Re: consider using latest autoconf for upcoming release?

[Jim Meyering]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 5:00 AM Pádraig Brady <P@draigbrady.com> wrote:
> On 27/03/2023 02:27, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Hi Pádraig,
> >
> > I recently made the grep-3.10 release using the very latest autoconf
> > (built from master). I'm preparing to make an autoconf snapshot, and
> > hopefully soon after, a "stable" 2.73 release. So far, no one has
> > reported any issue with grep-3.10, but it has significantly less
> > autoconf coverage than coreutils.
> >
> > What do you think about using either autoconf's master or the imminent
> > snapshot when preparing coreutils-9.3?
>
> My thinking for the last few releases was to always
> use the latest versions from the latest version of Fedora.
> If 2.73 is being cut though, it makes sense to align with that.
> We're due a 9.3 release very soon anyway, so it does make sense to align 
> these.

autoconf-2.72c snapshot announcement here:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/autoconf/2023-03/msg00020.html