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

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.