Re: maint.mk sync

[Simon Josefsson]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson wrote:
> ...
>> But the checks aren't turned on by default, are they?  The maintainer
>> needs to invoke the specific rules manually.
>
> Yes, they are run as part of "make syntax-check", by default.

Ah, right.

>> I'd like something like that: I think multiple projects will want these
>> less-generally-useful rules so it makes sense to share them.
>>
>> The only thing that is missing is to make it easy for maintainers to put
>> something in cfg.mk that disables some checks they don't care about,
>> alternatively list the checks they do care about.
>
> That's already possible.
> Just add names of unwanted checks to this variable in cfg.mk:
>
> local-checks-to-skip = ...

That warrants a NEWS entry blurb that maintainers that use the
'syntax-check' rule from maintainer-makefile may want to add tests they
don't care about to local-checks-to-skip.  But I think that is
acceptable?  People should be able to adapt these things.

Did you notice any other problem?  Looking through the changes again, I
only see syntax-check related stuff, or harmless stuff.

/Simon