Re: maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Fixed in gnulib's maint.mk, thanks!
>
> Still, we have code duplication between gnulib and coreutils here, which
> leads to the same bugs being reported twice, on different mailing lists.
> Since you created maint.mk from coreutils' Makefile.maint, can you can Jim
> look how to reduce the code duplication? Maybe coreutils' Makefile.maint
> can use an "include maint.mk"? Or, if not, can you add enough parametrization
> to maint.mk so that it can?

I'll look at it eventually, but probably not soon.
One potential problem is that some people still care about CVS support,
and I've made only a halfhearted attempt to retain that in coreutils'
Makefile.maint.