Bruno Haible writes:
> Richard Stallman commented on Jacob Bachmeyer's idea:
>> > > Another related check that /would/ have caught this attempt would be
>> > > comparing the aclocal m4 files in a release against their
>> (meta)upstream
>> > > sources before building a package. This is s
> On 4 Oct 2022, at 23:58, Karl Berry wrote:
>
> With Zack's latest Python fixes, I was hoping to move towards an
> Automake release, but I find myself stymied by apparently random and
> unreproducible test failures. I haven't exhausted every conceivable
> avenue yet, but I thought I would writ
> On 22 May 2022, at 02:32, Karl Berry wrote:
>
> Unrelated to Jan's depend.am change, but it turns out that a previous
> change broke make distcheck (768 failures). I don't feel right about
> committing anything else until that is fixed.
>
> Error below. Jim (or anyone), can you easily advise
> On 3 May 2022, at 22:57, Karl Berry wrote:
>
>I see no reason why mv would be so crucial.
>
> Hmm, I guess you're right. Thanks for the analysis.
>
> The purpose of the stamp files is to avoid partial files being written
> (and screwing up future makes), but if the file is zero bytes, i
