Re: Emacs local variables sections in files; time-stamping

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello,

* Karl Berry wrote on Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 01:25:11AM CET:
>     The minor advantage of having time stamps in the text
> 
> Minor?  How else can we have an accurate version number?  Doing it by
> hand, or doing anything related to particular vc systems, proved
> completely untenable for these widespread files.  That's the whole
> reason we introduced the timestamps in the first place, as you know.
> 
>     it would make sense to remove the Local Variables sections
>     from the copies installed via gnulib, 
> 
> I guess, as a compromise to avoid the "attack vector" (vastly
> overstated, seems to me).

Some of these files are not only installed by gnulib-tool, but also by
automake.  Some of these files originate from Automake.  Please don't
introduce gratuitous changes, that will be very annoying for those
projects who commit them to version control.

(And no, I'm not discussing whether those projects make a mistake in
your view, that wasn't my choice and it isn't up for discussion now.)

FWIW, I've never used emacs to update time stamps, and have fared pretty
well I would say.

Thanks,
Ralf