While fixing a double-word, I noticed that vms/gzip.hlp
was essentially a generated file. It's just a VC'd copy of
the generated gzip.1, with a few changes for vms. Hence,
it was out of date, because it had not been kept in sync.
I've gone ahead and tweaked it to pass the new doubled-word
syntax check, but longer term plan to remove it, along with
these other directories:
amiga, atari, msdos, nt, os2, vms
As mentioned in the TODO-updating commit below, if anyone thinks
some of those should *not* be removed, you should make the case soon.
I've also updated to the latest from gnulib/.
From 01ed072c24fb5a9543e9b515566727758e7bb55c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:50:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] maint: fix typos in vms manual: s/it\nit/\nit/
* vms/gzip.hlp: Remove doubled "it".
---
vms/gzip.hlp | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/vms/gzip.hlp b/vms/gzip.hlp
index f9d0e52..4e7fe81 100644
--- a/vms/gzip.hlp
+++ b/vms/gzip.hlp
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
ratio: compression ratio (0.0% if unknown)
uncompressed_name: name of the uncompressed file
- The uncompressed size is given as -1 on VMS because it
+ The uncompressed size is given as -1 on VMS because
it is not possible to seek reliably to the end of the
compressed file, where this size is stored.
--
1.7.5.rc1.228.g86d60b
From aec16b07fcd40faf6f0b61bbccb58d97a4e66b42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:33:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] build: update gnulib submodule to latest
---
gnulib | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib
index 739321e..3586d4e 160000
--- a/gnulib
+++ b/gnulib
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 739321ef60661c7b51a4c7a3fa23957a4d9dbbc3
+Subproject commit 3586d4e58a7a6f3df3e11b77990fa117cd8e8f51
--
1.7.5.rc1.228.g86d60b
From d88281b21d6aed1584b14e06d9f6cdf3d350216e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:56:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] maint: note that we'll remove amiga, atari, msdos, nt,
os2, vms soon
If someone can show that any of these are being used, let us know.
* TODO: Note the plan to remove those directories this year.
---
TODO | 5 +++--
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 8b89628..009eba9 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ TODO file for gzip.
Some of the planned features include:
-- Remove some of the old porting cruft, since we no longer support
- PRIMOS etc. any more.
+- Remove some of the old porting cruft. since we no longer support
+ FIXME-2011: in mid to late 2011, remove the following directories:
+ amiga, atari, msdos, nt, os2, vms
- Separate out the shell scripts like gzexe into a new little package;
these scripts are less used and less reliable and should be optional.
--
1.7.5.rc1.228.g86d60b
