Re: [bug-miscfiles] proposals

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > I was contemplating of adding "proper" tags (miscfiles-x_y kinda
   > deal) for each release of miscfiles; and rename the old tags to
   > something like cvs/tag-name.  What do you think?

   When renaming tags (or adding new ones), I prefer to use very short
   names -- easier/quicker to type -- like v1.2, etc.  Here are the
   recent ones in coreutils:

     v8.10
     v8.11
     v8.12
     v8.13
     v8.14
     v8.15
     v8.16

   Also, if you use this style, some gnulib-supplied tools will be
   able to automate your build/release process out of the box.

One can easily munge it using some magic, like

  build-aux/git-version-gen .tarball-version 's/miscfiles-/v/;s/_/./g'

But I see the benefit of using short names; then again in inetutils we
use the longer form, so I'll probobly go for that because that is what
I am used to.

   >    If you're interested, let me know and I'll dig up my notes.
   >    I've done it a few times before, and getting it right (making
   >    new-sig-tag date match that of each old one) was not trivial.
   >
   > Please do, it would be very helpful.

   Here are my notes from when I converted old (unsigned) tag names
   like COREUTILS-4_5_1 to new, signed ones like v4.5.1:

Thanks!

I'll upload a new tarball shortly.