Re: version-etc tweak

[Simon Josefsson]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> Back in January, we had a discussion about formatting of --help output.  The 
> result was that coreutils changed to a new style.  It has now been several 
> months and several releases, with no complaints about the new style.  Also, 
> autoconf 2.64 has been released in the meantime, with support for a more 
> reliable package URL (if your PACKAGE_NAME starts with "GNU ", then autoconf 
> 2.64 gives you the same URL as this code gives when using autoconf 2.63, 
> without you having to do anything in your configure.ac).  So how about 
> letting 
> all other gnulib clients of version-etc pick up this change?
>
> A couple of points to think about.  Right now, standards.texi recommends:
>
> Report bugs to: address@hidden
>
> while coreutils uses:
>
> Report PROGNAME bugs to address@hidden

Isn't the right approach to see if there is support for changing
standards.texi first?  If I understand correctly, your patch would make
all applications using gnulib for version-etc stop being compatible with
standards.texi and that seems like a bad idea to me.

I would support making this change to standards.texi though.  But if for
some reason that doesn't happen, I think gnulib should be consistent
with standards.texi rather than coreutils.

/Simon