Rebuild all the automake-1.16 dependencies? A libltdl-dev issue?

[Simon McVittie]

Apologies, this is my fault. automake-1.17 landed in unstable today
and I neglected to "Provides: automake-1.16" on it. I'll fix that with
an upload tonight.

If it Provides: automake-1.16 but doesn't contain /usr/bin/automake-1.16,
isn't that going to defeat the purpose of the dependency in libltdl-dev,
which was added to resolve #905841, #906394, #906395, #906423, #906501,
#906507 by making sure that it could find the then-current automake
version?

It would probably be useful if the maintainers of the Autotools family
(autoconf, automake and libtool) could coordinate to make sure none of
those three packages are breaking the others when they're updated.

smcv

[Simon McVittie]

I don't know if it is a problem of just time to have all the mirrors
synchronized, but I'm trying to rebuild a package in sid that has
libltdl-dev as Build-dep.
However, libltdl-dev is no installable because it depends on
automake-1.16 [1] and it is a "Package not available"

I've reported this as a bug in libltdl-dev ("libltdl-dev: uninstallable
in unstable: Depends: automake-1.16 but it is not installable", bug
number not yet available).

Is it right and just a question of time, of some bug must be filled and
a rebuild of a bunch of packages [3]?

If I understand the situation correctly, libtool needs to be rebuilt,
but other packages do not. However, the related bug #1094361 makes it
more difficult to rebuild libtool.

smcv