Comment 1 for bug 79021

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In , James Rowe (jay-jnrowe) wrote : Re: xdelta: xdelta.m4 is improperly written

On Thu Sep 25, 2003 at 10:32:03AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> Cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
> Package: xdelta
> Version: 1.1.3-6
> Severity: normal
>
> The file xdelta.m4 is written is oldish Autoconf style, and will break
> in the future. It is actually already trigerring warnings in
> Automake. I propose below an update _than does not require Autoconf 2.5x_.
> It is 100% compatible 2.13 and 2.50.

  This bug is starting to drive me crazy now everytime I have to use aclocal
on a debian build box.

  The patch by Akim Demaille(the best part of a year ago) at the head of this
thread fixes the problem, and surely should be applied.

Thanks for your time

Jay

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