Hi Simon,
Two remarks regarding 'announce-gen':
1) I used the command
$ $GNULIB_SRCDIR/build-aux/announce-gen --release-type stable \
--package-name libunistring --previous-version 0.9.10 \
--current-version 1.0 --gpg-key-id F5BE8B267C6A406D \
--url-directory https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libunistring \
--gnulib-version=v0.1-5095-gb79766eae
and got the error message:
announce-gen: when specifying gnulib as a tool, you must also specify
--gnulib-version=V, where V is the result of running git describe
in the gnulib source directory.
Try 'announce-gen --help' for more information.
This was confusing, as I did gave --gnulib-version but no --bootstrap-tools
option. To fix this error, I had to add a --bootstrap-tools=... option.
The error message should better have been
announce-gen: when specifying --gnulib-version, you must also include
gnulib in the --bootstrap-tools option.
Try 'announce-gen --help' for more information.
2) The proposed text contained these paragraphs:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:
cd38e3850b2d08a55cce0380d3510e7df83c6306 libunistring-1.0.tar.gz
PAGEwOSS18IIzjHSXdHSxY8MPtbLvgMsWySM3a0xhUQ libunistring-1.0.tar.gz
ebae3103346745bef3534910a5c5afbf72099b2a libunistring-1.0.tar.xz
W6tVtJ91137SayV5l+kZtpPyn9ShvCLg5uAkwkbHJ0E libunistring-1.0.tar.xz
The SHA256 checksum is base64 encoded, instead of the
hexadecimal encoding that most checksum tools default to.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
But since the 'sha256sum' command from coreutils does not have an option
to display the base64 encoded SHA256 sum, and no tool I know of provides
a way to convert between hexadecimal and base64 checksums, displaying
a base64 encoded SHA256 sum is next to useless.
I ended up rewriting these paragraphs as follows:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:
File: libunistring-1.0.tar.gz
SHA1 sum: cd38e3850b2d08a55cce0380d3510e7df83c6306
SHA256 sum: 3c0184c0e492d7c208ce31d25dd1d2c58f0c3ed6cbbe032c5b248cddad318544
File: libunistring-1.0.tar.xz
SHA1 sum: ebae3103346745bef3534910a5c5afbf72099b2a
SHA256 sum: 5bab55b49f75d77ed26b257997e919b693f29fd4a1bc22e0e6e024c246c72741
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
How about doing the same in the 'announce-gen' script?
Bruno
