Re: maint.mk: improve the release procedure

[Jim Meyering]

Akim Demaille wrote:
> Le 25 sept. 2012 à 12:11, Akim Demaille a écrit :
>
>>> Pushed.
>>
>> Well, there are several issues with the patch.  I'm on it right now.
>> Do not upgrade gnulib right now.
>
> Here are the proposed fixes.  I had only tested these patches
> with the various targets of the release procedure, I had not
> anticipated that other targets would be affected.  I have pushed
> an akim-fix-upload branch, which contains the following patch.
> I'll be back in about an hour, feel free to revert the previous
> patches, or install this or a variation thereof.  Sorry about that.

Thanks for the prompt fix.
I've confirmed that with this change, other targets still work.

ACK.
Only reservation is that the new name, "equal"
may be too generic, i.e., may interfere with a
Makefile that uses maint.mk.  Maybe "_equal" instead?