Re: gnulib-v0.1: a non-event

[Jim Meyering]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Oct 30, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> for now the new tag and fallback to --short-log fixes all
>>> the immediate problems I was having (except the reliance on gnupg-1.4
>>> gpgv).
>>
>> You say that as if there were a problem with the maint.mk rule.
>> The rule relies on the existence of a program named "gpgv".  If your
>> distribution or packaging tool chooses to call that binary gpgv2,
>
> Well, gnupg-2.0.22 itself chooses to call that binary gpgv2, which  is
> why I reported it, because I imagine many other maintainers use a distro
> that ships gnupg-2.x rather that gnupg-1.4.x by default.

Oh, I didn't realize that, and should have checked.  Thanks.
Here's an untested patch that should resolve the problem:

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