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| From: | Bruno Haible |
| Subject: | Re: Hidden files in autoconf 2.70 distribution? |
| Date: | Wed, 09 Dec 2020 16:46:27 +0100 |
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Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > I don't recall seeing "hidden" files in a GNU package (or really any > > tarball distribution) before. It seems like the GNU coding standards > > should be addressing such things. The tarballs of GNU gettext versions 0.19 and higher also contain files '.version' and '.tarball-version'. > > See build-aux/git-version-gen and maint.mk. It comes from Gnulib's git-version-gen and GNUmakefile. I'm not defending it. In fact, it annoys me. But I didn't spend the time to find another way to record the release version. Bruno
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