Requesting a new release containing a revert of problematic commit

[Sam James]

Hi!

Within the last release of the GNU Autoconf Archive, a change [0] for AX_PTHREAD
was merged which seemed to be based on some confusion regarding autotools' build
system triplets.

I think we've now reached a conclusion with the original contributor, as can be 
seen on the comments
of that commit on GitHub [1].

One of my colleagues in Gentoo has opened a pull request [2] to revert this 
change. Would it be possible
to apply this and cut a new release at your convenience?

We're particularly concerned about this change "leaking" downstreams, resulting 
in a network-effect
as distributions pick up the buggy change and people attempt to "fix" their 
configure.ac to pull in
CANONICAL_TARGET unnecessarily. Acting sooner will help limit the scope/blast 
radius from this
change.

(I've also CCed the Debian and Fedora maintainers for autoconf-archive to make 
them aware.)

Best,
sam

[0] 
https://github.com/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive/commit/2567e0ce0f3a11b535c6b527386197fb49ff172b
[1] 
https://github.com/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive/commit/2567e0ce0f3a11b535c6b527386197fb49ff172b#r52114886
[2] https://github.com/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive/pull/233

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