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Alpha & beta announcements shouldn't go to info-gnu by default
From: |
Reuben Thomas |
Subject: |
Alpha & beta announcements shouldn't go to info-gnu by default |
Date: |
Thu, 5 May 2011 23:40:30 +0100 |
Karl just pointed out to me that, as per:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Announcements.html
non-stable release announcements should only go to info-gnu in
exceptional circumstances. Therefore, the hardwired To: address in
maint.mk is wrong, and should be set differently for alpha, beta &
stable targets.
I had a look through maint.mk, and it seems that the right way to
implement this is to pass RELEASE_TYPE down to the announcement
target, and then have To: default to info-gnu for stable releases, and
$(PACKAGE_BUGREPORT) otherwise, which in turn means that
announcement_Cc_ needs to add $(PACKAGE_BUGREPORT) only for stable
releases. Hence, the conditional assignments of announcement_Cc_ and
announcement_mail_headers_ need to be moved into the announcement
target, which seems harmless as those variables are not used elsewhere
in maint.mk.
In other words, I'm happy to provide a patch once the management has
approved the lines along which I'm writing it!
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- Alpha & beta announcements shouldn't go to info-gnu by default,
Reuben Thomas <=