Re: [bug-inetutils] Versioned use of automake.

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   could we imagine decreasing the the version on Automake stipulated
   in "configure.ac"?

I'd actually like to require automake 1.11.1, since that fixes a
security bug in how `make dist' creates tarballs (see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2009-12/msg00012.html).
Automake 1.11.1 is from 2009, which is quite old by now, decreasing
the version is I think a bad idea.

     AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11])

     AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])

   The most recent OpenIndiana (from September 2011) ships with
   automake-1.10. I think we would do external testers a service, were
   we to lower the demand. For my own work with a slightly older
   OpenBSD, automake-1.9 is ideal.

Is there a specific why `testers' need to re-run automake instead of
using the tarball for which you don't need automake/autoconf/etc?