Here's a trivial syntax check rule that I'll be using in a few projects. Without this, it's too easy to forget the guideline that says we prefer to use two empty lines to separate per-version sections.
>From 23dbe438fd4c6a15281a1dc938a6b2682c48f677 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:16:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] maint: add a NEWS-checking syntax-check rule * cfg.mk (sc_NEWS_two_empty_lines): New syntax-check rule. --- cfg.mk | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk index 7651ab2..8b3670c 100644 --- a/cfg.mk +++ b/cfg.mk @@ -164,6 +164,13 @@ sc_man_file_correlation: @$(MAKE) -s -C src all_programs @$(MAKE) -s -C man $@ +# Ensure that the end of each release's section is marked by two empty lines. +sc_NEWS_two_empty_lines: + @sed -n 4,/Noteworthy/p $(srcdir)/NEWS \ + | perl -n0e '/(^|\n)\n\n\* Noteworthy/ or exit 1' \ + || { echo '$(ME): use two empty lines to separate NEWS sections' \ + 1>&2; exit 1; } || :; \ + # Perl-based tests used to exec perl from a #!/bin/sh script. # Now they all start with #!/usr/bin/perl and the portability # infrastructure is in tests/Makefile.am. Make sure no old-style -- 1.7.3.2.4.g60aa9
