[FYI] {maint} maint: add some of my maintainer-specific scripts

2013-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
They are likely not general enough for widespread use, but they are useful nonetheless. In the best-case scenario, they will start to be used by other people, and thus accordingly improved and made more general and flexible. In the worst case scenario, well, I still get to keep them in a centrali

Re: [IMPORTANT] Should I stop flooding the list with patches?

2013-01-02 Thread Jack Kelly
Stefano Lattarini writes: > So I ask: do you think it would be worthwhile to curb the quantity > of patches posted here, by posting only the patches judged worth > of "general interest"? Or, if that sounds overly "harsh", what > should I/we do to ensure important changes have more visibility? I

[IMPORTANT] Should I stop flooding the list with patches?

2013-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello automakers. In a private mail recently, it has been pointed out to me that the amount of patches posted on the automake-list make it difficult to spot the user-relevant and/or possibly controversial patches among the huge crowd of typofixes, trivial changes, minor refactorings, or testsuite

[FYI] Merge branch 'maint' into master

2013-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
commit 97d770d69c3522beab5aec18d135d84b3b5eb449 Merge: db64467 fe05207 Author: Stefano Lattarini Date: Wed Jan 2 14:45:42 2013 +0100 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: tests: reorganize tests on backslash issues style: add trailing ':' to some test cases tests: tweak tests

[PATCH] tests: reorganize tests on backslash issues

2013-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
* t/backsl.sh, t/backsl2.sh, t/backsl3.sh: Merge ... * t/backslash-issues.sh: ... into this test. * t/backsl4.sh: Rename ... * t/backslash-before-trailing-whitespace.sh: ... like this. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Adjust. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini --- t/backsl.sh

Re: [PATCH] texi: info files can be generated in the builddir

2013-01-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
And here is the patch deprecating the "CLEANFILES hack". This too is for maint, and scheduled to appear in Automake 1.13.2. I will push it with together with the patch introducing the new 'info-in-builddir' option, tomorrow. Regards, Stefano 8< 8< 8< 8< 8< 8< ---