On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Bruno Haible wrote: > >> That's the common convention for when you receive a package in the form of >> a >> tarball. For CVS or git checkouts, there is no such conventions. > > Well, most packages that have INSTALL have it also in the VCS.
I haven't done a survey and so can't make an authoritative statement about "most", but I'll bet that most packages which include INSTALL in the source repository have an out-of-date INSTALL file. I just switched findutils to using automake's version of INSTALL (by removing INSTALL from the git repository) for this reason. James.
