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Re: [PATCH] release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically


From: Stefano Lattarini
Subject: Re: [PATCH] release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:00:09 +0100
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On Saturday 10 December 2011, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 December 2011, Jim Meyering wrote:
> >> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> >> > * Makefile.am (git-dist): The developer might have already tested
> >>
> >> "might"  Hah.
> >>
> > "The developers shall test extensively before finally creating
> > the release tarball" would sound better? :-)
> 
> I wasn't advocating a change (it's only the ChangeLog after all).
> I was merely acknowledging the humor in what you wrote.
> Anyone who is making a release should have run "make distcheck"
> *many* times, definitely including at least one run after any
> final change.  Saying that it "might have been done" sounded
> tongue-in-cheek.
>
I will make the change anyway, unless you object; the new wording
is more normative (as it should be) while still tongue-in-cheek.

> In general I'm for that one extra "make distcheck" run, as a
> safety net, as long as it doesn't take too long, but automake's
> test suite takes long enough
>
(At least one hour and a half on my desktop, BTW)

> that one doesn't easily run it an extra, usually-unnecessary time.
> 
Right.

Regards,
  Stefano



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