tags 8483 patch close 8483 thanks Hello Ralf, sorry for the delay.
On Tuesday 12 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:43:36AM CEST: > > I've recently noticed that some *.m4 files in the Automake distribution > > lack a serial number: > > > > $ cd ~/src/automake > > $ grep -L '# *serial' m4/*.m4 > > m4/amversion.m4 > > m4/auxdir.m4 > > m4/gcj.m4 > > m4/install-sh.m4 > > m4/mkdirp.m4 > > m4/python.m4 > > m4/runlog.m4 > > m4/strip.m4 > > m4/upc.m4 > > > > Is there a reason for this? > > Not that I know of. > > > If not, should we add serial numbers to those files? > > Yes, please. Please do a rough check of history, in case they used to > have a serial number at one time. > They didn't. > Pick one that is higher than that. > If master and branch-1.11 have different versions of files, master > should have its serial bumped by a few, let's say five at least, so we > don't run into trouble when we update 1.11. > Done; the files that differed were `python.m4', `install-sh.m4' and `gcj.m4'. Also, while the file `amversion.in' was the same in the two branches, the file `amversion.m4' generated from it is expected to change among different automake versions (as it contains references to `@VERSION@' and `@APIVERSION@'), so I've bumped the serial number of `amversion.in' too after merging into master. > Patches against active branches preapproved. > Pushed. Regards, Stefano
