Reuben Thomas wrote: > On 30 April 2011 11:54, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: >> The secondary mechanism is that a package can have a README-release.diff >> file and use the --local-dir option. > > That seems like a nice way of editing in per-project sections, but > seems a bit over the top for just getting the name of the project in. > > Jim, if you're now expecting another version of the patch from me, I'm > now slightly unclear on which of the various above-discussed changes > and/or enhancements I should be making, so a summary'd be nice!
Bruno's suggestion to use README-release.diff may be a good mechanism for a package to insert specialized sections into that more general template. However, there are enough uses of @PACKAGE@ that I think it would not be a good replacement for the simple one-liner to perform the substitution. So I suggest to add a comment telling the reader to add that one-liner to autogen.sh or bootstrap.conf's epiloge function. You may also want to note that as with any gnulib-tool supplied file, it can be customized via a .diff file as Bruno mentioned.
