coreutils packaging question

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 07:25:39PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>Now that cygwin-1.5.20 is out, I would like to release coreutils-5.97-1
>as the latest stable upstream release.  However, it depends on autoconf
>2.60, and requires autoreconf to fold in my cygwin-specific patches.
>Should I wait for the cygwin package of autoconf 2.60, so that
>coreutils can be rebuilt with a self-contained stock cygwin install?
>Or should I just go ahead and release coreutils now with a big caveat
>in the readme file that the user must manually install their own
>autoconf 2.60 to reproduce my build?

IMO, the latter.  If people really want to build from source then they should
be able to follow instructions.

cgf