Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes: > >> Another GNUmakefile tweak. > > And another. I noticed that once .version was created, nothing kept it up-to- > date. For instance, with the latest coreutils-ss.tar.lzma, .version is > 6.10.165-157ff, even though the tarball is 6.10.169-a1a0b.
Oh! Good catch. > This patch removes > a stale .version any time that the maintainer needs it to be up-to-date, just > prior to a release. > > So in the process of fixing it, I followed the advice of this mail: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2008-03/msg00025.html > and documented how .version and .tarball-version should both be used when > doing intra-version release numbering. That looks perfect. Thank you for documenting it.
