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Re: version-etc tweak
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Simon Josefsson |
Subject: |
Re: version-etc tweak |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:07:01 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> Back in January, we had a discussion about formatting of --help output. The
> result was that coreutils changed to a new style. It has now been several
> months and several releases, with no complaints about the new style. Also,
> autoconf 2.64 has been released in the meantime, with support for a more
> reliable package URL (if your PACKAGE_NAME starts with "GNU ", then autoconf
> 2.64 gives you the same URL as this code gives when using autoconf 2.63,
> without you having to do anything in your configure.ac). So how about
> letting
> all other gnulib clients of version-etc pick up this change?
>
> A couple of points to think about. Right now, standards.texi recommends:
>
> Report bugs to: address@hidden
>
> while coreutils uses:
>
> Report PROGNAME bugs to address@hidden
Isn't the right approach to see if there is support for changing
standards.texi first? If I understand correctly, your patch would make
all applications using gnulib for version-etc stop being compatible with
standards.texi and that seems like a bad idea to me.
I would support making this change to standards.texi though. But if for
some reason that doesn't happen, I think gnulib should be consistent
with standards.texi rather than coreutils.
/Simon