Re: [bug-diffutils] GFDL and invariants [was: bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check]

[Jim Meyering]

Santiago Vila wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Eric.  That works for me.
>> I've just pushed this:
>>
>> >From 789252980fa8ef3d804372cd347898aa5c2ec7fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 18:59:29 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] doc: relax restriction on front-cover and back-cover texts
>> [...]
>
> Thanks a lot!

It's worth mentioning in NEWS.

Since I made a snapshot not long ago, I expect to
make the 3.2 release in the next few days, depending
on how things in gnulib look.

>From 1747c6c7ebc02e2b3cb91e803f81681d99b6af71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:13:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention that diffutils-doc may not be merged back into
 diffutils

* NEWS (Packaging): Mention the "no front/back-cover" change.
---
 NEWS |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2ef515f..4d389f5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ GNU diffutils NEWS                                    -*- 
outline -*-

   diff and sdiff have a new option --ignore-trailing-space (-Z).

+** Packaging
+
+  The texinfo documentation no longer specifies "front-cover" or
+  "back-cover" texts, so that in Debian it may now be included in the
+  diffutils package, rather than in the separate diffutils-doc package.
+
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 3.1 (2011-08-10) [stable]

 ** Bug fixes
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1.7.7.rc0.362.g5a14