On 11/16/20 2:41 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
URLs can contain commas (this occurs in practice, but
perhaps not for BTS URLs), so that if commas or other characters
are forbidden, this should be documented so that the URL is
written with such characters encoded.
That was done in a patch by Zack W
> On 16 Nov 2020, at 11:41, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
> On 2020-11-16 10:29:13 +0100, Hans Åberg wrote:
>>> On 16 Nov 2020, at 01:18, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>>> If I understand correctly, the goal is to have the Reporting-Bugs.html
>>> URL together with the e-mail address.
>>
>> Yes, and such a
On 2020-11-16 10:29:13 +0100, Hans Åberg wrote:
> > On 16 Nov 2020, at 01:18, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > If I understand correctly, the goal is to have the Reporting-Bugs.html
> > URL together with the e-mail address.
>
> Yes, and such a feature is not supported.
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software
> On 16 Nov 2020, at 01:18, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
> On 2020-11-15 23:49:10 +0100, Hans Åberg wrote:
>> One can also have an additional URL argument, which defines a variable
>> PACKAGE_URL:
>>
>> AC_INIT(GNU MP, GMP_VERSION, [gmp-bugs@gmplib.org (see
>> https://gmplib.org/manual/Reporting-
On 2020-11-15 23:49:10 +0100, Hans Åberg wrote:
> One can also have an additional URL argument, which defines a variable
> PACKAGE_URL:
>
> AC_INIT(GNU MP, GMP_VERSION, [gmp-bugs@gmplib.org (see
> https://gmplib.org/manual/Reporting-Bugs.html)], gmp, [https://gmplib.org/])
If I understand corre
> On 15 Nov 2020, at 22:53, Marc Glisse wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Paul Eggert wrote:
>
>> To fix the problem, I suggest using just [gmp-bugs@gmplib.org] as the 3rd
>> argument of AC_INIT, as being the simplest; or if you want the commentary,
>> put it in as valid RFC 5322 commentary,
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Paul Eggert wrote:
The Autoconf manual has long said that the 3rd argument of AC_INIT must be an
email address.
Which is a bad idea, we don't want people blindly sending an email, we
want them to read instructions first. A URL makes more sense.
To fix the problem, I sug
Autoconf 2.70 is about to be released, and some people have been using
prereleases to build lots of GNU packages. They've run into a problem with GMP,
though, because GMP uses AC_INIT in a way contrary to the Autoconf manual, and
changes in Autoconf mean that GMP's "./.bootstrap" procedure fails
