On 2026-02-03 08:10, Zack Weinberg wrote:
I was able to update standards.texi by hand, and the script needs to be
run only once per release of Autoconf, so a fix is not urgent.
One possible fix is to sync with Gnulib's Git copy instead, which you
can get here:
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/plain/doc/standards.texi
You don't need to use HTTPS; you can grab the Gnulib repository via Git
and take it from there.
Using the downstream Git copy of standards.texi delegates the CVS hassle
to the Gnulib folks. The idea is that it's better to have just one team
deal with CVS hassles rather than have multiple downstream projects deal
with it independently.
Projects should avoid CVS when possible, as it's obsolete and it
discourages new contributors. Many years ago I asked the Savannah
hackers to move the web stuff from CVS to Git, but evidently these
things take time.
