Reuben Thomas <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Simon Josefsson wrote: > >> Reuben Thomas <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Eric Blake wrote: >>> >>>> Jim meant coreutil's maint.mk. It is not synced with gnulib's maint.mk, >>>> although several people have expressed interest in resyncing them. >>> >>> Aha! This is surely the sort of rule that should be pushed into >>> gnulib. Thanks anyway. >> >> Yup, and I've promised to work on it but never had time. Real Soon >> Now. :) Anyone else is free to submit patches to do this too. > > Since coreutils' maint.mk seems to be shared with other projects > already, could it not simply be pushed into gnulib as it is? Could > those projects (currently, according to the comments, "coreutils, > idutils, CPPI, Bison, and Autoconf") be encouraged to take maint.mk > from gnulib?
I agree, although coreutils' maint.mk makes some assumptions that are not valid for all projects. So some merging is likely required. /Simon
