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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: psainty@orcon.net.nz, Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de,
	20403@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it)
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 08:27:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sgn8m7qs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=VbGgaXcOOK=7rUSx4o7nzzu496D6FALR+3_8FGEcxhA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Fri, 1 Nov 2019 06:02:42 +0100)

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 06:02:42 +0100
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>, 
> 	Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>, 20403@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Maybe the etc/NEWS symlink doesn't even need to be versioned.
> > The build process could construct it based on the version number.
> 
> That makes sense to me.  When creating source distribution tarballs,
> the file could simpy be copied or moved into place in case there are
> problems with symlinks on this or that platform (I guess MS-Windows?).

Tarballs with symlinks are problematic, so I'm against having symlinks
in the release tarball.  But we could make NEWS a copy of the
corresponding NEWS.XY when we produce the tarball, if that's what
people prefer.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-01  6:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-22  6:14 bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it) Ulrich Windl
2019-09-30  0:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-30 20:34   ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-31  9:56     ` Phil Sainty
2019-10-31 14:43       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-31 16:04         ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-31 16:11           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-31 19:19         ` Glenn Morris
2019-10-31 20:08           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-01  5:02           ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-01  6:27             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-11-11 19:06               ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-04  7:16         ` bug#20403: Antw: " Ulrich Windl
2019-11-04 16:11           ` Eli Zaretskii

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