Re: mention ncftpput in gnupload --help

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Karl,

* Karl Berry wrote on Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 01:30:25AM CET:
> Bruce Korb pointed out that ncftpput is far from universal.
> Maybe a patch like this?

Thanks! and sorry for the delay.  Pushed to maint, merged in master and
branch-1.11.

Cheers,
Ralf

commit 77d43d3879a750c549bd3efd27b8e344a685ff72
Author: Karl Berry <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Dec 21 22:22:31 2009 +0100

    mention ncftpput in gnupload --help
    
    * lib/gnupload: Mention ncftpput in `--help' output.
    Report by Bruce Korb.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ce2d912..cb8b54b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2009-12-21  Karl Berry  <address@hidden>
+
+       mention ncftpput in gnupload --help
+       * lib/gnupload: Mention ncftpput in `--help' output.
+       Report by Bruce Korb.
+
 2009-12-05  Antonio Diaz Diaz  <address@hidden>
 
        Replace unlzma, gunzip, bunzip2 with pack tool -d invocation.
diff --git a/lib/gnupload b/lib/gnupload
index 104f8ad..bd120e8 100755
--- a/lib/gnupload
+++ b/lib/gnupload
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # Sign files and upload them.
 
-scriptversion=2009-11-29.20; # UTC
+scriptversion=2009-12-21.21; # UTC
 
 # Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009  Free Software Foundation
 #
@@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ Examples:
            --delete oopsbar-0.9.91.tar.gz \\
            -- foobar-0.9.91.tar.gz
 
+gnupload uses the ncftpput program to do the transfers; if you don't
+happen to have an ncftp package installed, the ncftpput-ftp script in
+the build-aux/ directory of the gnulib package
+(http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib) may serve as a replacement.
+
 Report bugs to <address@hidden>.
 Send patches to <address@hidden>."