Thanks for this awesome tip. It is actually a big winner and I will be using it a lot in the future to avoid writing all the useless files for every new project.
> As far as this particular issue goes, have you considered simply > running automake --foreign ? This, of course, is a game-changer on my packaging policy (looks like a way to simplify) so I will be doing that in the future. However, the AUTHORS and THANKS files serve another purpose in this case besides letting (simply-invoked) automake succeed. They also help explain that my friend Chih-Jen and his friend Chih Chung wrote the core math code together, but I myself wrote the manpages, packaging related files, and some new features that Chih-Jen did not accept, like the quiet option. This is essential to be in Debian but since Chih-Jen never agreed with the feature enhancement I felt it important to distinguish who added it in these new files. Because I don't want to add things under his name. That is why I clarified who wrote what the way I did as I thought was standard creditting policy. BTW the source is not on alioth yet it is downloadable as a tar (but not automatically) from the web and I have a Mercurial repos here with the packaging files. I can put it up on a public Mercurial URL (http:) on my server but I am not sure if I have enough access to put it up on alioth or not yet ; my Debian account is still waiting. Cheers, -r. On 10/5/07, Aaron M. Ucko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Rudi Cilibrasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Michael Koch believes it is inappropriate for me to be changing > > AUTHORS and THANKS. Actually, I made those up quite some time ago to > > allow for automake to be used in packaging (optionally). But, he > > > -- > Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) > http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- "We can try to do it by breaking free of the mental prison of separation and exclusion and see the world in its interconnectedness and non-separability, allowing new alternatives to emerge." -- after Vandana Shiva -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
