Re: upstream of various programs

2024-06-13 Thread Collin Funk
Hi Bruno, On 6/13/24 4:40 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: > announce-gen --help > gitlog-to-changelog --help > mktempd --help > update-copyright --help > useless-if-before-free --help > vcs-to-changelog.py --help The following file is mentioned in "Information for maintainers of GNU software"

Re: upstream of various programs

2024-06-13 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Karl, all, > I meant a > comment saying that gitlog-to-changelog is maintained in gnulib, like > the analogous comments in many other scripts in the various packages. This should not be done through a comment. The GNU Coding Standards specify two ways through which a program can tell where "up

Assume wchar_t

2024-06-13 Thread Bruno Haible
The vasnprintf module still has #if HAVE_WCHAR_T conditionals. But we haven't seen a platform without wchar_t maybe 20 years. wchar_t was introduced a couple of years before C99, and X11 relies on it extensively. So, it's time to simplify things and assume that wchar_t exists. 2024-06-13 Bruno

Re: sort keys patch for gendocs.sh, gitlog-to-changelog

2024-06-13 Thread Karl Berry
Done. Thanks. > And ideally put a note in gitlog-to-changelog saying as much? Not done. I don't think it requires a comment. It's quite obvious that when someone uses sorting at such a place, it's to guarantee reproducibility. Agreed. I didn't mean that (sorry for not being cle

Re: sort keys patch for gendocs.sh, gitlog-to-changelog

2024-06-13 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry wrote: > Thanks. So can you please install these gnulib changes? Done. > And ideally put a note in gitlog-to-changelog saying as much? Not done. I don't think it requires a comment. It's quite obvious that when someone uses sorting at such a place, it's to guarantee reproducibility.

Re: sort keys patch for gendocs.sh, gitlog-to-changelog

2024-06-13 Thread Karl Berry
but it seems that here the sort criterion does not really matter? Indeed, I think the default (ASCII byte) sort is fine here. gitlog-to-changelog is maintained in Gnulib, as can be seen from $ git log build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog Thanks. So can you please install these gnulib cha

Re: _AM_PATH_GPGRT_CONFIG produces spurious error output

2024-06-13 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Yutaka, > Fixed in: > > https://dev.gnupg.org/rC0fd9ec3403ea66d39f32602dce53bc5219e4c158 Thanks. I confirm that the issue is fixed: On AIX, the 'configure' output no longer contains a spurious error message. Bruno

Re: sort keys patch for gendocs.sh, gitlog-to-changelog

2024-06-13 Thread Collin Funk
Hi Karl, On 6/13/24 7:23 AM, Karl Berry wrote: > And, where is the latter maintained? The script itself does not say, and > it's copied around everywhere. I could figure it out eventually, but > in the interests of time, thought I'd just ask ... --thanks, karl. I can't comment on the change since

Re: sort keys patch for gendocs.sh, gitlog-to-changelog

2024-06-13 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Karl, > The patch included tweaks to gendocs.sh and gitlog-to-changelog, below. > I'm working on the automake parts of the patch, but can someone here > decide about committing them please? To me (who doesn't know Perl) they look reasonable. Perl's sort allows to specify the sort criterion (<

Re: questions following upcoming POSIX issue 8 release - iconv

2024-06-13 Thread Eric Blake
On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 02:36:00AM GMT, Bruno Haible wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > > - https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1635 > > I added a couple of comments there, to explain the problem. > It is irritating to see that the Austin Group in defect 1007 apparently > acted like "we don't unders

sort keys patch for gendocs.sh, gitlog-to-changelog

2024-06-13 Thread Karl Berry
We received a report in Automake about sorting hash keys in Perl (ca.2017). https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=25629 The patch included tweaks to gendocs.sh and gitlog-to-changelog, below. I'm working on the automake parts of the patch, but can someone here decide about committing them

Re: _AM_PATH_GPGRT_CONFIG produces spurious error output

2024-06-13 Thread NIIBE Yutaka
Hello, Thank you for your report. Bruno Haible wrote: > dev.gnupg.org's src/libgcrypt.m4 is mirrored into Gnulib. I didn't know that. I now understand that it's used for basic crypto support. > Building a recent testdir of all of Gnulib on AIX 7.1, I see this > among the output of 'configure'