I searched for a project that overrides this noteworthy definition,
but found none. So I've renamed the variable to start with gl_,
and to be a little more descriptive:
>From 321fd42fee5eb894decb2b8de93698071fac3c29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:43:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] maint.mk: rename variable: s/noteworthy/gl_noteworthy_news_/
* top/maint.mk (gl_noteworthy_news_): Rename from "noteworthy"
and move definition closer to sole use.
---
ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
top/maint.mk | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5548bef..b407e8a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2010-11-14 Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
+
+ maint.mk: rename variable: s/noteworthy/gl_noteworthy_news_/
+ * top/maint.mk (gl_noteworthy_news_): Rename from "noteworthy"
+ and move definition closer to sole use.
+
2010-11-13 Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
remove autoconf-2.57 work-around requiring AC_PROG_EGREP and AC_PROG_CPP
diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
index 2c1be85..bd5431b 100644
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -1097,7 +1097,6 @@ emit_upload_commands:
@echo =====================================
@echo =====================================
-noteworthy = * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
define emit-commit-log
printf '%s\n' 'post-release administrivia' '' \
'* NEWS: Add header line for next release.' \
@@ -1135,6 +1134,7 @@ alpha beta stable: $(local-check) writable-files
no-submodule-changes
# Override this in cfg.mk if you follow different procedures.
release-prep-hook ?= release-prep
+gl_noteworthy_news_ = * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
.PHONY: release-prep
release-prep:
case $$RELEASE_TYPE in alpha|beta|stable) ;; \
@@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ release-prep:
fi
echo $(VERSION) > $(prev_version_file)
$(MAKE) update-NEWS-hash
- perl -pi -e '$$. == 3 and print "$(noteworthy)\n\n\n"' NEWS
+ perl -pi -e '$$. == 3 and print "$(gl_noteworthy_news_)\n\n\n"' NEWS
$(emit-commit-log) > .ci-msg
$(VC) commit -F .ci-msg -a
rm .ci-msg
--
1.7.3.2.4.g60aa9
