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Re: check-news target fails if NEWS file starts with a copyright header
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: check-news target fails if NEWS file starts with a copyright header |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:40:20 +0200 |
Peter Simons wrote:
> the NEWS file of the GNU Autoconf Archive begins with a copyright header. As a
> result, the check-news target fails, because the output of "head ./NEWS"
> doesn't contain the release line that target is looking for.
>
> I have worked around the problem by patching maint.mk as follows:
>
> sed -i -e 's,head $(srcdir)/NEWS,head -n 20 $(srcdir)/NEWS,' maint.mk
>
> Maybe it's worthwhile to change that in the distribution, too?
You may want to put the copyright at the end of NEWS.
Human readers prefer it that way, too ;-)
Here's what I use:
========================================================================
Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free
Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution.
- check-news target fails if NEWS file starts with a copyright header, Peter Simons, 2010/06/04
- Re: check-news target fails if NEWS file starts with a copyright header,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: check-news target fails if NEWS file starts with a copyright header, Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/06/04
- Re: check-news target fails if NEWS file starts with a copyright header, Karl Berry, 2010/06/04
- Re: check-news target fails if NEWS file starts with a copyright header, Jim Meyering, 2010/06/04
- Re: check-news target fails if NEWS file starts with a copyright header, Peter Simons, 2010/06/06
- Re: check-news target fails if NEWS file starts with a copyright header, Jim Meyering, 2010/06/07
- Re: check-news target fails if NEWS file starts with a copyright header, Peter Simons, 2010/06/07
- Re: check-news target fails if NEWS file starts with a copyright header, Jim Meyering, 2010/06/07
- Re: check-news target fails if NEWS file starts with a copyright header, Peter Simons, 2010/06/07
- Re: check-news target fails if NEWS file starts with a copyright header, Jim Meyering, 2010/06/07
- Re: check-news target fails if NEWS file starts with a copyright header, Peter Simons, 2010/06/08