Address Gn2 #426262 - configure.{ac|in}

[mjeveritt]

https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262

[Elizafox]

Could you clarify? it's marked as fixed.

[mjeveritt]

Check the 'See also' field .. that one is still open. I think this was a general "we need a QA notice" style bug...

[Elizafox]

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546614 for reference. That's a tough nut to crack. I don't know if it can be handled in an automated way except for shaming upstream maintainers into fixing it.

[mjeveritt]

Could we maybe throw out an automated email, and see what comes back?!

[Elizafox]

That may not be well-received as automated email is often considered spam.

[Elizafox]

I believe a valid strategy is to put up a list or something with a list of packages still requiring ancient autotools stuff and email upstreams directly. Some of the stuff using ancient autotools may be dead.

[mjeveritt]

I think we'll stick that on the QA list Project with EAPI fixes, and such. Tagging @awilfox and we'll throw up another wiki page for it a-la EAPI somehow. Need some awk-fu foxy ;) until my python tree-walking lib is up-and-running.