Re: hello 2.3.91 pretest

[Eric Blake]

Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org> writes:

> 
> I've made a new pretest for hello,
> http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.3.91.tar.gz.
> 
> The Hello code is unchanged; this is just to get the new version of the
> FDL, and updated gnulib and other infrastructure.
> 
> Please test if you have the inclination.

With the recent FDL-1.3 release, I noticed that some GNU packages ship 
COPYING.DOC as a text copy of the FDL (for example, sed[1]), while others only 
ship fdl.texi (for example, Autoconf).  Automake supports automatic 
distribution of COPYING.DOC if it is present, but 'automake --install' does not 
add it if not present (contrast with COPYING, which it does add).  Neither the 
Automake manual nor the GNU Coding Standards (standards.texi) mention whether 
COPYING.DOC is recommended practice.

[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=sed.git;a=commitdiff;h=b62309d

Should we update the GNU Coding Standards to require that any package that 
ships documentation under a separate license than COPYING should also provide a 
COPYING.DOC file?  And if so, should the hello package set a good example?  
Likewise, should Automake make this easier?

-- 
Eric Blake