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Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches
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Bernhard Voelker |
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Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches |
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Tue, 5 Jan 2016 02:15:26 +0100 |
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On 01/04/2016 04:17 PM, James Youngman wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> a) Comments on the patch:
>
> 1. Essentially the current version of configure.ac was written by me:
yes, right; so the patch boils down to the attached, updated patch.
> b) Sure, go ahead and push patches to the 4.6 branch. Generally
> yes, for low-risk patches.
thanks, done.
> c) I'd like input from the other committers and from the principal
> downstream consumers (e.g. Andreas, Kamil) before making a choice,
> since it's the committers who would need to maintain the parallel
> branches and the downstream maintainers who (allegedly) benefit.
> Let's have a data-based discussion about what works for everyone - in
> a separate thread, I'd suggest.
Okay, I'll come up with something in a separate thread then.
> c, part 2) Happy to change the naming scheme, I'm not especially
> attached to the current one.
Unfortunately, the gain of having "git describe"-like tarball names
seems only to be possible once a 2-digit tag is in place.
> d) We could populate the .x file for files which will be persistently
> problematic (such as regexprops.texi). I think fixing the
> translations will require coordination with the Translation Project.
> Or hacking the bootstrap script or the update-copyright script.
Other GNU projects don't have *.po files version-controlled nowadays,
because autopoint will always fetch the latest from TP.org. As a side
effect, "make update-copyright" wouldn't have to be tamed to spare
these files.
Have a nice day,
Berny
0001-maint-add-copyright-header-to-configure.ac.patch
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- [PATCH 2/8] maint: remove po/Makevars as it is created during bootstrap, (continued)
- [PATCH 2/8] maint: remove po/Makevars as it is created during bootstrap, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/01/03
- [PATCH 7/8] doc: fix typo in find.1, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/01/03
- [PATCH 1/8] build: avoid bootstrap error on clean tree, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/01/03
- [PATCH 3/8] maint: update .gitignore files, remove obsolete .cvsignore files, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/01/03
- [PATCH 5/8] maint: adjust some copyright headers manually, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/01/03
- [PATCH 8/8] maint: don't use obsolete gnulib modules, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/01/03
- [PATCH 4/8] maint: update all copyright year number ranges, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/01/03
- Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches, James Youngman, 2016/01/03
- Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/01/04
- Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches, James Youngman, 2016/01/04
- Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches,
Bernhard Voelker <=
- stable branches (was Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches), Kamil Dudka, 2016/01/05
- Re: stable branches (was Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches), Bernhard Voelker, 2016/01/05
- Re: stable branches (was Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches), James Youngman, 2016/01/05
- Re: stable branches (was Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches), Kamil Dudka, 2016/01/06
- Development and release model? - Multiple branches? (was: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches), Andreas Metzler, 2016/01/05