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

[Jim Meyering]

Santiago Vila wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> +** 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.
>
> Hmm, would be possible not to mention specific Debian packages?
>
> The thing is naturally not that the manual is not in diffutils-doc
> anymore but instead that the manual will finally be in "main" (as
> opposed to non-free).
>
> The problem with the above wording is that diffutils-doc binary
> package might still exist. In fact, my current plan is to put the info
> manual in "diffutils" and the HTML manual in "diffutils-doc", as I do
> with several other GNU packages.
>
> My suggestion:
>
> "[...] so that in Debian it may now be included in the main section."

Thanks.  I prefer that, too.
I've also fixed my s/not/now/ typo.

>From 6ee4fafeabc26bf50b1b7b6d5decdf8c781dfc38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:13:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: diffutils' texi-derived doc may now be in debian's
 "main" section

* NEWS (Packaging): Mention the "no front/back-cover" change.
---
 NEWS |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2ef515f..271872e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ 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 it may now be included in Debian's "main" section.
+
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 3.1 (2011-08-10) [stable]

 ** Bug fixes
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1.7.7.rc0.362.g5a14