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Hello Jay,

* On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 06:00:30AM +0000 Jay wrote:
  
> How do people manage autoconf/automake versions?
[...]
> Rather I'm wondering about submitting patches to other projects,

Just make sure you do not include generated files in your patch, and you
should be fine.

Having the generated files in your patch would produce problems on the
other side, regardless if you use the same version of auto* tools or
not.

HTH,
Spiro.

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