On 13/10/2021, Zack Weinberg <z...@owlfolio.org> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021, at 11:54 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Zack Weinberg wrote: >>> >>> Looks like some kind of problem with automatic ChangeLog generation? >> >> To me this appears to be the result of skipping an important step in >> what should be the process. It seems that there should be a >> requirement that 'make distcheck' succeed prior to a commit. Then >> this issue would not have happened. > > Well, yes, but how do I _fix_ it? :-) > > <.< I _may_ be investigating the possibility of setting up CI for automake > so that problems like this are at least noticed in a timely fashion. But if > the tree is broken to begin with, it's troublesome...
I think this happened because your CI system has done a shallow clone. So the changelog generation failed because the git log is incomplete. I have no trouble running "make dist" from a normal git checkout. Cheers, Nick
