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Re: VC-tag again


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: VC-tag again
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:33:32 +0200

Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On 30 April 2011 11:54, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The secondary mechanism is that a package can have a README-release.diff
>> file and use the --local-dir option.
>
> That seems like a nice way of editing in per-project sections, but
> seems a bit over the top for just getting the name of the project in.
>
> Jim, if you're now expecting another version of the patch from me, I'm
> now slightly unclear on which of the various above-discussed changes
> and/or enhancements I should be making, so a summary'd be nice!

Bruno's suggestion to use README-release.diff may be a good mechanism for
a package to insert specialized sections into that more general template.
However, there are enough uses of @PACKAGE@ that I think it would not be
a good replacement for the simple one-liner to perform the substitution.
So I suggest to add a comment telling the reader to add that one-liner to
autogen.sh or bootstrap.conf's epiloge function.  You may also want to
note that as with any gnulib-tool supplied file, it can be customized
via a .diff file as Bruno mentioned.



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