Re: Bugs in unexpand(1) version 6.10

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 11 February 2009 13:31:57 Karl Berry wrote:
>     $ ls --version
>     ls (GNU coreutils) 6.12
>     Packaged by ... some distro string here ...
>
> That looks like the right place to me.  I'd be tempted to put a blank
> line between "Packaged by ..." and "Copyright ...".

the attached patch does this

> Please include a url to your downstream coreutils package in the distro
> string.
>
> This seems fine, but can we also include the information in --help,
> which is what we did when we amended the coding standards a few days
> ago?  For instance, grep 2.5.4 --help ends with:
>
>   Report bugs to: address@hidden
>   GNU Grep home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/>
>   General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
>
> I suggest having another line such as
>   Gentoo Grep home page and bug reports: <http://whatever>
> between "Report bugs to" and "GNU Grep home page".
>
> Perhaps even the address in "Report bugs to:" should be changed also.
>
> Perhaps that same line should be used in --version and --help.  I assume
> we're trying to get across the same information.

so should this be one or two new options ?
--with-packager="Gentoo"
--with-packager-version="some patchset version info"
--with-packager-bugurl="http://bugs.gentoo.org/";

$ ls --version
ls (GNU coreutils) 6.12
Packaged by Gentoo (some patchset version info)
......

$ ls --help
...
Report bugs to <address@hidden>.
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Gentoo bug reporting page: <http://bugs.gentoo.org/>

with the last line looking something like:
"%s bug reporting page: <%s>\n", PACKAGE_PACKAGER, PACKAGE_PACKAGER_BUGURL,
-mike

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