Hi Simon, > Can someone think of a simple but backwards compatible fix here?
I don't think it needs to be backwards-compatible. The maintainers can afford to change their habits from make release RELEASE='1.2 stable' to make release VERSION=1.2 RELEASE_TYPE=stable > The reason all this happens is this code in top/maint.mk: > > # If RELEASE_TYPE is undefined, but RELEASE is, use its second word. > # But overwrite VERSION. > ifdef RELEASE > VERSION := $(word 1, $(RELEASE)) > RELEASE_TYPE ?= $(word 2, $(RELEASE)) > endif I would remove these few lines, and update top/README-release accordingly. Bruno
