From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it) Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 08:27:23 +0200 Message-ID: <83sgn8m7qs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <55375867020000A100019F48@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de> <87pniex9a4.fsf@joffe.skangas.se> <2ecef70596fda1bcaaaa31944a01a39a@webmail.orcon.net.nz> <83eeytnffd.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="126050"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: psainty@orcon.net.nz, Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de, 20403@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 01 07:29:02 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iQQQf-000WdC-MK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 07:29:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56710 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQQQe-0002AK-IS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 02:29:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34687) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQQPj-0001S4-Fn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 02:28:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQQPi-0005jX-FN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 02:28:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:46121) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQQPi-0005jS-CJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 02:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQQPi-0002SK-7Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 02:28:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 06:28:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20403 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: wontfix Original-Received: via spool by 20403-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20403.15725896529399 (code B ref 20403); Fri, 01 Nov 2019 06:28:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20403) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Nov 2019 06:27:32 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54942 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQQPD-0002RW-Tg for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 02:27:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53748) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQQPC-0002RG-2p for 20403@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 02:27:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40419) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQQP5-0005IZ-Lg; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 02:27:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4706 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iQQP3-0001WT-LE; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 02:27:22 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Kangas on Fri, 1 Nov 2019 06:02:42 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:170576 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 06:02:42 +0100 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Phil Sainty , > Ulrich Windl , 20403@debbugs.gnu.org > > Glenn Morris 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.