Follow-up Comment #9, bug #52076 (project make): I thought, the NEWS entry was added shortly after the commit, but actually there were 13 months in between, thus I now found
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27381 involving psmith (the commit author) not being sure why it was added, only 3 months after the commit which I would not expect to be the case if there would have been a lengthy discussion around it. Also found https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2010-07/msg00050.html with little extra insight _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52076> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make