converting gnulib to git: status

2007-07-18 Thread Jim Meyering
I've fixed a few robustness problems in git's git-cvsserver. Once savannah is running a version of git with that change (the patch is already upstream, and will be in git-1.5.3), I'll feel better about switching gnulib's upstream repo to git, and letting old-timers (:-) use git's cvsserver

preferred copyright notice?

2007-07-18 Thread Eric Blake
There are currently differences between maintain.texi and gpl-3.0.texi about what the copyright header for each file distributed in an FSF-owned GPLv3+ package should look like. $ diff -u gpl maintain --- gpl 2007-07-18 06:56:27.43750 -0600 +++ maintain2007-07-18 06:56:11.65625 -0600

Re: POTFILES.in updates?

2007-07-18 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit: Would it make sense to simply provide the .po fragments Actually, that's what we are doing now. The gnulib textual domain is registered at TP and I update gnulib.pot file there from time to time. Moreover, quite a few translations for it are already

Re: POTFILES.in updates?

2007-07-18 Thread Bruno Haible
Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: The gnulib textual domain is registered at TP and I update gnulib.pot file there from time to time. Your updates have apparently not been registered: http://translationproject.org/POT-files/gnulib-1.0.pot is still from 2005-09-30. Can you write to coordinator at

Re: recent gnulib changes require coreutils adaptations

2007-07-18 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've tested the following versions of git: 1.5.3.rc1.27.ga5e40 1.5.2.4 1.4.4.4 Very strange. I'm using Debian stable git (1.4.4.4). E.g., from a git-cloned coreutils work area, git-rm -n doc/.gitignore should exit successfully. Does that

files under build-aux/ are forgotten to be distributed

2007-07-18 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, In the hello-2.3 tarball the gnulib/lib/Makefile.am references build-aux/link-warning.h, but this file is not included in the tarball! This should fix it: 2007-07-18 Bruno Haible [EMAIL PROTECTED] * gnulib-tool (func_get_automake_snippet): Synthesize also an EXTRA_DIST

Re: second call: please nail down the license terms of some more modules

2007-07-18 Thread Paul Eggert
Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The rest of the v3 patch is kinda large and is still being debugged. An update on this. Part of the debugging is that we are awaiting some policy clarifications from the FSF on the LGPLv2.1 - LPGLv3 upgrade. Of course we support the move to v3 and intend

Re: POTFILES.in updates?

2007-07-18 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: Since the use of gnulib has the tendency to introduce translatable strings into a project, should there be a way for gnulib-tool to mark which files need to be added to POTFILES.in? Perhaps a new entry in each module description that calls out any files with translatable