Does not honour minimum-version requirement

[Scott James Remnant]

Package: automake1.4
Version: 1:1.4-p6-8
Severity: important

automake 1.4 does not honour the "minimum-version requirement" argument
that can be passed to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE in later versions, e.g:

	AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.8 gnu])


By adding this I can be sure that people won't accidentally generate the
Makefile.in files with 1.6 or 1.7, but that 1.8 and 1.9 are acceptable.

Automake 1.4 doesn't check this, so tries to generate the Makefile.in
files anyway and fails gloriously.

This is especially dangerous, because 1.4 is *still* the default
Automake (#116500, #228604).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8

Versions of packages automake1.4 depends on:
ii  autoconf                      2.59-5     automatic configure script builder
ii  autotools-dev                 20040312.1 Update infrastructure for config.{

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