Since I see no reason forcing us to keep the HACKING file "invisible" to the end user (not in ChangeLog, not in distributed tarball, ...), I've gone ahead and written a very simple patch to mke it "visible". OK for maint?
Regards, Stefano
From 1ef59cdc330f2e863fcd4d9d2a6fb712826ffeb2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:29:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Make HACKING visible to the end user. * HACKING: It's ok to mention it in the ChangeLog and to put in the distribution tarball. * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add `HACKING'. --- ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ HACKING | 3 --- Makefile.am | 1 + Makefile.in | 1 + 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 7b64d55..f7841a7 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> + + Make HACKING visible to the end user. + * HACKING: It's ok to mention it in the ChangeLog and to put + in the distribution tarball. + * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add `HACKING'. + 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output. diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index ecbd0a8..f965ece 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -4,9 +4,6 @@ * This file attempts to describe the rules to use when hacking automake. -* Don't put this file into the distribution. Don't mention it in the - ChangeLog. - ================================================================ = Administrivia diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 3aead75..6f99ec8 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \ ChangeLog.03 \ ChangeLog.04 \ ChangeLog.09 \ + HACKING \ bootstrap \ $(AUTOMAKESOURCES) diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in index 528b80e..765350d 100644 --- a/Makefile.in +++ b/Makefile.in @@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \ ChangeLog.03 \ ChangeLog.04 \ ChangeLog.09 \ + HACKING \ bootstrap \ $(AUTOMAKESOURCES) -- 1.7.1
