Re: missing help2man

2008-11-29 Thread Karl Berry
I'm still wondering about whether and how to document this in the manual. I think one place would be the Preparing Distributions node, explaining that distcheck and dist will fail if `missing'-generated man pages are present. And perhaps the maintainer-mode node, since that is where mis

Re: missing help2man

2008-11-29 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> The following patch (against git Automake) moves the test to the > `distdir' target, which is updated by both `dist' and `distcheck'. Looks good. Werner

Re: missing help2man

2008-11-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Karl Berry wrote on Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:34:40AM CET: > Check that none of the man pages contain the error message. If any > do, error out with a descriptive message. > > Ok, sounds good. > > We could also move such a check into 'distcheck'. That way 'dist' could > still wo

Re: missing help2man

2008-11-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Roumen, let's keep the others in Cc:, I don't think they all read bug-automake. * Roumen Petrov wrote on Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 09:48:13PM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> * Werner LEMBERG wrote on Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 07:18:46AM CET: Anyway, maintainer-mode isn't very interesting; few p