Comment 32 for bug 740815

I'd just like to add that the CouchDB team would be extremely appreciative of a new source release. Once its released we'll move pretty quickly to pull in the downstream changes from Ubuntu and drop support for the 1.7 release.

I'd also like to specifically voice support for shipping the working configure script with the source release as that'd prevent us from requiring two versions of autoconf when building from a vcs checkout.