Re: version-etc tweak

2009-11-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Karl Berry on 11/12/2009 6:14 PM: > And I think it is good, because it > is consistent punctuation with the following lines: > > Report bugs to: @var{mailing-address} > @var{pkg} home page: > Gener

Re: version-etc tweak

2009-11-12 Thread Karl Berry
> Report bugs to: m...@example.com > > while coreutils uses: > > Report PROGNAME bugs to m...@example.com Isn't the right approach to see if there is support for changing standards.texi first? We can change standards.texi. But (sorry) why is the coreutils text prefe

Re: version-etc tweak

2009-11-12 Thread Ben Asselstine
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > For what it's worth, argp uses `Report bugs to > .', i.e. no package name. > My 2 cents for the sake of clarity: argp doesn't add the enclosing `<' '>'. Ben

Re: version-etc tweak

2009-11-12 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
For what it's worth, argp uses `Report bugs to .', i.e. no package name.

Re: version-etc tweak

2009-11-10 Thread Simon Josefsson
Eric Blake writes: > Back in January, we had a discussion about formatting of --help output. The > result was that coreutils changed to a new style. It has now been several > months and several releases, with no complaints about the new style. Also, > autoconf 2.64 has been released in the

version-etc tweak

2009-11-09 Thread Eric Blake
Back in January, we had a discussion about formatting of --help output. The result was that coreutils changed to a new style. It has now been several months and several releases, with no complaints about the new style. Also, autoconf 2.64 has been released in the meantime, with support for a