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Re: news-date-check tweaking..
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Eric Blake |
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Re: news-date-check tweaking.. |
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Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:38:48 +0000 (UTC) |
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Alfred M. Szmidt <ams <at> gnu.org> writes:
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> In inetutils we use something like `Version 1.6 (2008-12-27):' in
> NEWS, but news-date-check hardcodes it, and expects something else, `*
> FOO 1.6 (2008-12-27)', would this be acceptable for overriding the
> format?
Seems reasonable to me; while it is nice to be consistent between projects, I
don't see anything in GNU Coding Standards that requires an exact format of
NEWS headers, and it can be a lot of (unnecessary) work to reformat your NEWS
just to match another pattern.
--
Eric Blake