[groff] version and revision management

2018-01-13 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hi, I was starting to prepare the next release and would like to propose a little change in the version system. Currently groff's version is set in 'VERSION' and 'REVISION' files in the top source directory. When a new release was planned, the VERSION and/or REVISION files were first upgraded, t

Re: [groff] version and revision management

2018-01-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> In order to track more finely the version used when people report an > issue, I propose to use gnulib's script 'git-version-gen' to > generate a unique version. Yes! > Note: the full version is propagated in the various executables > generated by the build system (for example 'groff --verrsion