On 30 April 2011 21:33, Jim Meyering <[email protected]> wrote: > Reuben Thomas wrote: >> On 30 April 2011 11:54, Bruno Haible <[email protected]> wrote: >>> The secondary mechanism is that a package can have a README-release.diff >>> file and use the --local-dir option. >> >> That seems like a nice way of editing in per-project sections, but >> seems a bit over the top for just getting the name of the project in. >> >> Jim, if you're now expecting another version of the patch from me, I'm >> now slightly unclear on which of the various above-discussed changes >> and/or enhancements I should be making, so a summary'd be nice! > > Bruno's suggestion to use README-release.diff may be a good mechanism for > a package to insert specialized sections into that more general template. > However, there are enough uses of @PACKAGE@ that I think it would not be > a good replacement for the simple one-liner to perform the substitution.
Yup, as I said. > So I suggest to add a comment telling the reader to add that one-liner to > autogen.sh or bootstrap.conf's epiloge function. You may also want to > note that as with any gnulib-tool supplied file, it can be customized > via a .diff file as Bruno mentioned. Great, will modify patch for that. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
