Hello,
I have been using 'readme-release' module and was surprised to discover
that the "README-release" file was automatically distributed without any
mention in the "module/readme-release" file.
After some digging I have discovered that all files from the "top"
directory are automatically added to EXTRA_DIST. Here is a snippet from
bootstrap that could be removed:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
if test -n "$top_files"; then
sed_prepend_topdir='s,^,$(top_srcdir)/,'
echo "EXTRA_DIST += "`echo "$top_files" | sed -e "$sed_prepend_topdir"`
echo
fi
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
IMO we should move the responsability of distributing "top/*" files to
the module definition instead, and not distributing "README-release"
automatically (like what is done in Coreutils).
What do people think?
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Mathieu Lirzin
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