Re: maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4

[Simon Josefsson]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>>> Fixed in gnulib's maint.mk, thanks!
>>
>> Still, we have code duplication between gnulib and coreutils here, which
>> leads to the same bugs being reported twice, on different mailing lists.
>> Since you created maint.mk from coreutils' Makefile.maint, can you can Jim
>> look how to reduce the code duplication? Maybe coreutils' Makefile.maint
>> can use an "include maint.mk"? Or, if not, can you add enough parametrization
>> to maint.mk so that it can?
>
> I'll look at it eventually, but probably not soon.

I'm only using the gzip and refresh-po targets from maint.mk.  Is anyone
else using it?

If we make maint.mk minimal, it would be excellent to make coreutils'
Makefile.maint do 'include maint.mk'.  This was the idea all along.
I'll suggest patches for gnulib/coreutils to achieve this.

> One potential problem is that some people still care about CVS support,
> and I've made only a halfhearted attempt to retain that in coreutils'
> Makefile.maint.

Gnulib's maint.mk intentionally do not contain any VCS related functions
at all.  I think it is best to avoid adding them to gnulib's maint.mk
now.

/Simon