Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 11 February 2009 13:31:57 Karl Berry wrote: >> $ ls --version >> ls (GNU coreutils) 6.12 >> Packaged by ... some distro string here ... >> >> That looks like the right place to me. I'd be tempted to put a blank >> line between "Packaged by ..." and "Copyright ...". > > the attached patch does this > >> Please include a url to your downstream coreutils package in the distro >> string. >> >> This seems fine, but can we also include the information in --help, >> which is what we did when we amended the coding standards a few days >> ago? For instance, grep 2.5.4 --help ends with: >> >> Report bugs to: bug-g...@gnu.org >> GNU Grep home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/> >> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> >> >> I suggest having another line such as >> Gentoo Grep home page and bug reports: <http://whatever> >> between "Report bugs to" and "GNU Grep home page". >> >> Perhaps even the address in "Report bugs to:" should be changed also. >> >> Perhaps that same line should be used in --version and --help. I assume >> we're trying to get across the same information. > > so should this be one or two new options ? > --with-packager="Gentoo" > --with-packager-version="some patchset version info" > --with-packager-bugurl="http://bugs.gentoo.org/";
[I'm reading this message only today(!), after Bruno mentioned the thread. Sorry I didn't see it sooner. ] That looks good. s/-bugurl/-bug-report/ would permit an email address, too. > $ ls --version > ls (GNU coreutils) 6.12 > Packaged by Gentoo (some patchset version info) > ...... > > $ ls --help > ... > Report bugs to <bug-coreut...@gnu.org>. > GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> > Gentoo bug reporting page: <http://bugs.gentoo.org/> > > with the last line looking something like: > "%s bug reporting page: <%s>\n", PACKAGE_PACKAGER, PACKAGE_PACKAGER_BUGURL, Maybe slightly more generic, %s bug reports: <%s>\n", PACKAGE_PACKAGER, PACKAGE_PACKAGER_BUG_REPORTS, in case some distro prefers to use an email address, rather than a URL?
