Re: coreutils + maint.mk + public-submodule-commit

[Ángel González]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 04/09/2015 11:20 AM, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
> > Sounds like the Savannah server should be be checking that for all
> > its projects that use gnulib.
>
> No, because some projects deliberately don't want this check.  Emacs 
> is one (gnulib imports are copied into the Emacs repository), Tar is 
> another (it always uses whatever gnulib you've got).  A check like 
> this should be enabled only for projects that prefer the Coreutils style.
If they copy gnulib into Emacs repo, then they are not using a 
submodule. And if they have a foo-gnulib repository, the check should be 
against that repository, not upstream gnulib, so it makes sense in both 
cases.