Re: [Bug-gnulib] module maintainers

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert writes:
> If I need a minor change installed because (say) Bison doesn't port to
> Solaris 10 without some minor tweaking, I don't want to have to wait
> for a module maintainer's official approval in order to install the
> obvious tweak.

Sure, that would in 95% of the cases not be a controversial case. I'm
talking about controversial things: major functional changes, all
kinds of renaming, gratuitous stylistic changes, removal of comments,
removal of Woe32 support, major functional changes, changing license
from LGPL to GPL, etc.

> > I would like to ask that Paul doesn't make unnecessary changes
> > (such as "x >= 0" -> "0 <= x", or eliminating casts, or
> > controversial things like that)
>
> That's fine with me.

Thanks for promising this. I can now proceed and contribute some
modules from gettext.

Bruno