Re: maint.mk sync

[Jim Meyering]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
>>> 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.

I won't be complaining ;-)

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

Your patch looked fine.