Re: (ITS#8872) configure.in has long been deprecated

[hyc@symas.com]

fturco@fastmail.fm wrote:
> Full_Name: Francesco Turco
> Version: 2.4.45
> OS: Gentoo Linux
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (2001:b07:2eb:c9ed:21c:c0ff:fead:3d70)
> 
> 
> The Portage package manager reports the following warning message when building
> net-nds/openldap-2.4.45 on Gentoo Linux:
> 
>   * This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
>   * update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will
> die
>   * when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
> 
> Original bug report: https://bugs.gentoo.org/607686

Not a priority. The version of autoconf we use has been frozen for a long time 
and isn't going to change any time soon. End-users aren't expected to run the 
autotools themselves anyway, only the OpenLDAP Release Engineer does that. And 
changing filenames out of the blue is not viewed fondly by people trolling 
commit histories.

Closing this ITS.

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