On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 09:43:22PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > In broad strokes, we use the GNU changelog conventions: > > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html > > but with some minor formatting differences. However, the best thing is > to look in the commit history for examples close to what you're doing. > > There is brief mention of this in the "Submitting Patches" section of > the HACKING file in the source tree.
I read those earlier. I used a commit message we used before. I think that if you are serious about convention you should point to a real list of allowed standard messages. Now it looks arbitrary and makes the submitter look stupid. > >> It looks like the 'native-search-paths' field needs to be overridden, > >> since the existing one has "2.1.3" in it. > > > > I don't think it is used by 1.8.7. Does that matter? > > Yes, otherwise users who install ruby 1.8.7 will be advised to set > GEM_PATH to $HOME/.guix-profile/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.3. Ah, that is what it is for. Actually the build did not give me that message. I DO get a load of messages such as strip:/gnu/store/icz59y35qqmm4jcrnkqx7d73xlzsq0lq-ruby-1.8.7-p374/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/attlistdecl.rb: File format not recognized is there a way to prevent files with a .rb extension or ruby shebang to be stripped? Pj.
