[PATCH] maintcheck: fix a couple of typos in error messages

2011-12-31 Thread Stefano Lattarini
* Makefile.am (sc_tests_plain_autoheader): Fix the message to report a bad use of "autocheader", not of "automake." (sc_tests_plain_autom4te): Likewise, but for "autom4te" instead. (sc_tests_plain_autoreconf): Likewise, but for "autoreconf" instead. --- Makefile.am |6 +++--- 1 files changed,

[FYI] {master} maintcheck: be sure to look at all the test cases

2011-12-31 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Many maintainer checks in the top-level Makefile.am did some unwarranted assumptions about the test cases, i.e., they assumed that all the test scripts matched the wildcard `$(srcdir)/*.test'. This failed to properly take into account VPATH builds (where some generated tests might be in ${builddir

Re: [PATCH] {maint} dist: obsolote support for lzma (superseded by xz)

2011-12-31 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
Stefano Lattarini wrote: + - The `lzma' compression format for distribution archives has been +deprecated, and will be removed in the next major Automake release +(1.12). I'd rather still report a suggested lzma "successor" here (and in the new warning as well); we could maybe name bot

Re: [PATCH] {maint} dist: obsolote support for lzma (superseded by xz)

2011-12-31 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/31/2011 05:51 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > Hello Stefano, > > Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> The lzma utilities are today superseded by the xz utilities; > (Technically, I didn't write that; I just copied and pasted it ;-) > Please, could it be possible to stop spreading the false idea that

[PATCH] {maint} dist: obsolote support for lzma (superseded by xz)

2011-12-31 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
Hello Stefano, Stefano Lattarini wrote: The lzma utilities are today superseded by the xz utilities; Please, could it be possible to stop spreading the false idea that xz is somehow the only succesor to lzma(_alone)? They came from different authors (Ville Koskinen, Lasse Collin) and do not

Re: [PATCH] {maint} dist: add support for lzip compression

2011-12-31 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
Stefano Lattarini wrote: I've now pushed (to maint) Antonio's patch on lzip support. Thanks! Antonio.

Re: [PATCH] {maint} test defs: more granular overriding of the make program

2011-12-31 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/30/2011 07:26 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Will push this shortly if there is no objection. > > [SNIP] > > --- > tests/defs.in |2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/tests/defs.in b/tests/defs.in > index aa8eb63..0ee53c2 100644 > --- a/tests/defs.i

Re: bug#8071: Please rename automake invocation node

2011-12-31 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/30/2011 06:17 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 12/30/2011 03:29 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> [SNIP] >> >> So we _do_ need to make the swap. >> > Thanks for your explanation and testing. Here is the patch I'll > push shortly if there is no objection. > Pushed now. Regards, Stefano

Re: [PATCH] {maint} dist: add support for lzip compression

2011-12-31 Thread Stefano Lattarini
I've now pushed (to maint) Antonio's patch on lzip support. Regards, Stefano

Re: [RFC] Renaming and rebasing experimental/rewindable branches

2011-12-31 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/28/2011 12:32 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Hello automakers. > > I intend to perform the following renames on some automake branches: > > - testsuite-saner-shell => experimental/testsuite-saner-shell > - aclocal-search-path => experimental/aclocal-search-path > - automake-ng => experim