Re: hello 2.3.91 pretest

2008-11-09 Thread Karl Berry
With the recent FDL-1.3 release, I noticed that some GNU packages ship COPYING.DOC as a text copy of the FDL (for example, sed[1]), while others only ship fdl.texi (for example, Autoconf). Just to close this out, I added a few more words to maintain.texi about there being no need for C

Re: hello 2.3.91 pretest

2008-11-07 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Eric, Neither the Automake manual nor the GNU Coding Standards (standards.texi) mention whether COPYING.DOC is recommended practice. I'd expect any info to be in maintain.texi rather than standards.texi. (Not that there's anything there, either.) I asked rms about it some time ago

Re: hello 2.3.91 pretest

2008-11-07 Thread Eric Blake
Karl Berry freefriends.org> writes: > > I've made a new pretest for hello, > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.3.91.tar.gz. > > The Hello code is unchanged; this is just to get the new version of the > FDL, and updated gnulib and other infrastructure. > > Please test if you have the incli

hello 2.3.91 pretest

2008-11-06 Thread Karl Berry
I've made a new pretest for hello, http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.3.91.tar.gz. The Hello code is unchanged; this is just to get the new version of the FDL, and updated gnulib and other infrastructure. Please test if you have the inclination. Thanks, Karl