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From: Dylan Thurston <dpt@math.harvard.edu>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Consider reporting 2.50 for version if both present
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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:17:36 -0400
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Package: autoconf2.13
Version: 2.13-35
Severity: wishlist

Currently, with both 'autoconf' and 'autoconf2.13' installed,
'autoconf --version' returns 'Autoconf version 2.13'.  Can you
consider having this return 2.50 instead?  Here's a snippet from an
autogen.sh that would work better the other way:

...
set -e

if autoconf --version | head -1 | grep '2\.50' > /dev/null 2>&1; then
  cp configure.in-v2.50 configure.in
else
  cp configure.in-v2.13 configure.in
fi
...

(This is from Abiword CVS, if it matters.)

Thanks,
	Dylan Thurston

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux lilac 2.4.3 #1 Tue May 1 22:24:26 EDT 2001 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages autoconf2.13 depends on:
ii  autoconf                      2.50-8     automatic configure script builder
ii  debianutils                   1.15       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  m4                            1.4-13     a macro processing language       
ii  perl                          5.6.1-5    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules [libfile-temp-pe 5.6.1-5    Core Perl modules.