On 01/04/2016 04:17 PM, James Youngman wrote: > Thanks. > > a) Comments on the patch: > > 1. Essentially the current version of configure.ac was written by me:
yes, right; so the patch boils down to the attached, updated patch. > b) Sure, go ahead and push patches to the 4.6 branch. Generally > yes, for low-risk patches. thanks, done. > c) I'd like input from the other committers and from the principal > downstream consumers (e.g. Andreas, Kamil) before making a choice, > since it's the committers who would need to maintain the parallel > branches and the downstream maintainers who (allegedly) benefit. > Let's have a data-based discussion about what works for everyone - in > a separate thread, I'd suggest. Okay, I'll come up with something in a separate thread then. > c, part 2) Happy to change the naming scheme, I'm not especially > attached to the current one. Unfortunately, the gain of having "git describe"-like tarball names seems only to be possible once a 2-digit tag is in place. > d) We could populate the .x file for files which will be persistently > problematic (such as regexprops.texi). I think fixing the > translations will require coordination with the Translation Project. > Or hacking the bootstrap script or the update-copyright script. Other GNU projects don't have *.po files version-controlled nowadays, because autopoint will always fetch the latest from TP.org. As a side effect, "make update-copyright" wouldn't have to be tamed to spare these files. Have a nice day, Berny
>From 7329171ea9d379b82fd61586a709186cf078a1c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernhard Voelker <m...@bernhard-voelker.de> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 00:19:56 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] maint: add copyright header to configure.ac * configure.ac: Do the above. --- configure.ac | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index add312c..6c80d3a 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -1,3 +1,23 @@ +# -*- autoconf -*- +# Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script. + +# Copyright (C) 1996-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify +# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or +# (at your option) any later version. + +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +# GNU General Public License for more details. + +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. + +dnl Written by James Youngman. + dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script. AC_INIT([GNU findutils], 4.7.0-git, [bug-findutils@gnu.org]) AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(build-aux) -- 2.1.4
