Re: VC-tag again

[Reuben Thomas]

On 30 April 2011 21:33, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Yup, as I said.

> 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.

Great, will modify patch for that.

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