Re: [PATCH] readme-release: require the promoted modules

[Akim Demaille]

Le 7 juin 2012 à 15:05, Jim Meyering a écrit :

> Akim Demaille wrote:
>> Le 5 juin 2012 à 12:05, Akim Demaille a écrit :
>> 
>>> I have been trying to follow README-release as a guide
>>> for releasing Bison, unfortunately step after step I
>>> discovered that I needed modules that were not requested
>>> by Bison.  It seems sane that if you want README-alpha,
>>> you also want the tools it promotes.
>> 
>> Actually, I think I should also add announce-gen, would
>> you agree?  And maintainer-makefile?
> 
> Those do go hand in hand, so please do.

I also added pointers from the requested modules, WDYT?

From 289c3e4ba4447663b1e259349cd0514596413a9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 16:25:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] readme-release: also require announce-gen and
 maintainer-makefile.

* modules/readme-release (Depends-on): here.
* modules/announce-gen, modules/do-release-commit-and-tag,
modules/gnu-web-doc-update, modules/maintainer-makefile
(Description): Point to readme-release.
---
 ChangeLog                         |    8 ++++++++
 modules/announce-gen              |    2 +-
 modules/do-release-commit-and-tag |    2 +-
 modules/gnu-web-doc-update        |    3 ++-
 modules/maintainer-makefile       |    1 +
 modules/readme-release            |    4 +++-
 6 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index cca5fe7..69e8d4f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 2012-06-07  Akim Demaille  <address@hidden>
 
+       readme-release: also require announce-gen and maintainer-makefile.
+       * modules/readme-release (Depends-on): here.
+       * modules/announce-gen, modules/do-release-commit-and-tag,
+       modules/gnu-web-doc-update, modules/maintainer-makefile
+       (Description): Point to readme-release.
+
+2012-06-07  Akim Demaille  <address@hidden>
+
        maint.mk: fix VPATH issues.
        * top/maint.mk (news-check): GNU Make understand $< very well.
        (release-prep): NEWS is in $(srcdir).
diff --git a/modules/announce-gen b/modules/announce-gen
index 558c4b3..c262e64 100644
--- a/modules/announce-gen
+++ b/modules/announce-gen
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Description:
-Generate a release announcement message.
+Generate a release announcement message.  See also readme-release.
 
 Files:
 build-aux/announce-gen
diff --git a/modules/do-release-commit-and-tag 
b/modules/do-release-commit-and-tag
index e2f80a5..f3c30ff 100644
--- a/modules/do-release-commit-and-tag
+++ b/modules/do-release-commit-and-tag
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Description:
-Automate the release-commit and tag process.
+Automate the release-commit and tag process.  See also readme-release.
 
 Files:
 build-aux/do-release-commit-and-tag
diff --git a/modules/gnu-web-doc-update b/modules/gnu-web-doc-update
index 5b3e8ac..f70801c 100644
--- a/modules/gnu-web-doc-update
+++ b/modules/gnu-web-doc-update
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Description:
-update the official GNU web documentation for your project
+Update the official GNU web documentation for your project.
+See also readme-release.
 
 Files:
 build-aux/gnu-web-doc-update
diff --git a/modules/maintainer-makefile b/modules/maintainer-makefile
index ed43e87..4199fa4 100644
--- a/modules/maintainer-makefile
+++ b/modules/maintainer-makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Description:
 Helper GNUmakefile with syntax checks, build improvements, etc.
+See also readme-release.
 
 Files:
 top/maint.mk
diff --git a/modules/readme-release b/modules/readme-release
index 8b240d9..d9a4fa4 100644
--- a/modules/readme-release
+++ b/modules/readme-release
@@ -17,9 +17,11 @@ Files:
 top/README-release
 
 Depends-on:
+announce-gen
 do-release-commit-and-tag
-gnupload
 gnu-web-doc-update
+gnupload
+maintainer-makefile
 
 configure.ac:
 
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1.7.10.4