Re: targets to handle gnu dist procedures?

2005-03-02 Thread Tom Howard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > Actually the release procedure is so different for each package > that it seems impossible to automatize. > > In the case of the Automake package, for instance, the release > procedure (after you have modified the ve

Re: targets to handle gnu dist procedures?

2005-03-02 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Karl> John Darrington (cc'd here), who maintains the GNUbik package, made this Karl> suggestion: >> With the new ftp upload procedures, shouldn't the automake targets be >> changed appropriately? In particular: >> >> The dist target sho

Re: targets to handle gnu dist procedures?

2005-03-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Karl Berry wrote: The dist target should generate the package.tar.gz.asc file and the dist-check target should verify that this signature is indeed valid. I myself don't think it should be part of dist and distcheck. Doing the I agree. The 'make dist' and 'make distcheck' proc

targets to handle gnu dist procedures?

2005-03-01 Thread Karl Berry
John Darrington (cc'd here), who maintains the GNUbik package, made this suggestion: > With the new ftp upload procedures, shouldn't the automake targets be > changed appropriately? In particular: > > The dist target should generate the package.tar.gz.asc file and the > dist-check target should v