[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > The `NEWS' parsing routine in `announce-gen' seems to be over-specified > in that it expects lines introducing a new version to match > "\* (?:Noteworthy|Major) change". AFAICS, this is not too common practice > among GNU packages: GnuTLS uses "* Version X.Y.Z (released YYYY-MM-DD)",
Yep. I wrote it merely to be general enough to handle what's in the coreutils NEWS file. > Guile uses "Changes in X.Y.Z (since X.Y.(Z-1)):", lightning uses "NEWS > FROM VERSION X.Y TO X.(Y+1)", etc. > > It'd be nice to either allow a regexp to be passed on the command-line Yes, adding a command line option for that would be nice. Do you want to write the patch? > or to update the "NEWS File" section of the GCS to recommend a specific > format. > > Besides, the "Subject" line of the announcement could be made more > human-readable by using the real package name rather than its system > name, e.g., "GNU Hello X.Y released" instead of "hello-X.Y released". > > (End of gratuitous nitpicking. ;-)) No problem with nitpicking, here :-)
