Re: GNUmakefile and maintainer-distcheck

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:
>
>> Another GNUmakefile tweak.
>
> And another.  I noticed that once .version was created, nothing kept it up-to-
> date.  For instance, with the latest coreutils-ss.tar.lzma, .version is
> 6.10.165-157ff, even though the tarball is 6.10.169-a1a0b.

Oh!  Good catch.

> This patch removes
> a stale .version any time that the maintainer needs it to be up-to-date, just
> prior to a release.
>
> So in the process of fixing it, I followed the advice of this mail:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2008-03/msg00025.html
> and documented how .version and .tarball-version should both be used when
> doing intra-version release numbering.

That looks perfect.
Thank you for documenting it.