Re: serial number format

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Although I still have doubts whether they're worth the trouble

While I personally have not encountered the benefits of the serial
numbers — since I don't use 'aclocal --install' —, other people
surely do.

> perhaps it'd help if we added a file 
> m4/.dir-locals.el (or something similar) that would cause Emacs to 
> update these serial numbers automatically.

This sounds useful, yes. Any Emacs Lisp hacker volunteers?

Bruno