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To: Klee Dienes <klee@apple.com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>,
        "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>, DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions.
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Klee Dienes writes:
 > I'd argue that we should:
 > 
 > 1) Specify the versions of autoconf/automake/libtool/gettext by 
 > reference to official tarballs from ftp.gnu.org.

This places a requirement on the maintainers of ftp.gnu.org
to not delete said tarballs until binutils has been updated.
I dont' think you or they want that kind of coupling.
Better to uncouple things and have your own tarballs.
Then you can upgrade according to your schedule, not theirs.