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Re: gplv3 files and updates
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: gplv3 files and updates |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:00:32 +0200 |
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> consider what it means:
>> You prepare everything for a release, test to your heart's content,
>> and then at release time you rerun gnulib-tool to update copyright
>> notices. Unfortunately, that might also pull in other (untested)
>> changes. Of course, we can control that, but it is a potential
>> source of trouble.
>
> Just today, Patrick Leslie Polzer pointed us to the autogen.sh script used
> in findutils (mistakenly called 'import-gnulib.sh' although it does more than
"mistakenly"? I prefer that name to "autogen.sh", since
the script has nothing to do with the GNU Autogen project:
http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/
> importing gnulib), see [1]. Look at the variable 'gnulib_version': If you set
> it to a date in the past, you eliminate this sort of trouble. And if you
> set it to 'HEAD', you track all changes like you currently do. If the
> coreutils 'bootstrap' script had the same configuration parameter, you would
> only - at some point before the release - change this variable from HEAD
> to the the current date, until after the release.
That sounds reasonable.
However, I'm not likely to make bootstrap do this in the next few weeks.
Are you?
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, (continued)
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, Brett Smith, 2007/07/07
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, Karl Berry, 2007/07/07
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, Paul Eggert, 2007/07/12
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, Karl Berry, 2007/07/12
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, Simon Josefsson, 2007/07/13
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, Paul Eggert, 2007/07/13
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, Eric Blake, 2007/07/13
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, Bruno Haible, 2007/07/13
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, Jim Meyering, 2007/07/15
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, Bruno Haible, 2007/07/15
- Re: gplv3 files and updates,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, Bruno Haible, 2007/07/14
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, Jim Meyering, 2007/07/15
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, Simon Josefsson, 2007/07/06
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, Bruno Haible, 2007/07/06
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, Karl Berry, 2007/07/07
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, Simon Josefsson, 2007/07/08
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, Karl Berry, 2007/07/08
- Re: gplv3 files and updates, Bruno Haible, 2007/07/09
Re: gplv3 files and updates, Simon Josefsson, 2007/07/03