On Tuesday 27 January 2009 18:11:33 Bruno Haible wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > any reason for not adding a note when > > warning about obsolete stuff ? rather than updating every module that is > > marked obsolete, the gnulib tool itself could include the pointer. > > Hmm. Neither of these two options looks really good: A larger notice in > every modules file is hard to maintain. And letting gnulib-tool show extra > text would mix up the semantics of the 'Status' and of the 'Notice' field.
i mean something simple like this (and the output from gnulib-tool still looks sane to me): --- a/modules/memcpy +++ b/modules/memcpy @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Status: obsolete Notice: -This module is obsolete. +This module is obsolete (see gnulib.info::Obsolete modules). Files: lib/memcpy.c -mike
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