From: Dimitri Papadopoulos Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 22:56:50 +0000 (-0800) Subject: doc: update location of FETCHFILES variable. X-Git-Tag: v1.16.90~42 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f033898f9915c01a3524bd0a8629afa39a297b54;p=thirdparty%2Fautomake.git doc: update location of FETCHFILES variable. Report and patch: https://bugs.gnu.org/68004. * HACKING: FETCHFILES has been moved: Makefile.am -> maintainer/maint.mk. --- diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 14cf9d749..e642d2eb0 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -32,14 +32,15 @@ sure to add a test case for it, and to reference such test case from a proper Texinfo comment. -* Some files in the automake package are not owned by automake (many by - gnulib, https://gnu.org/s/gnulib); these files are listed in the - $(FETCHFILES) variable in Makefile.am. They should never be edited - here. All but one of them can be updated from respective upstreams - with "make fetch" (this should be done especially before releases). - The only exceptions are help2man (install the current version) and - 'lib/COPYING' (from FSF), which should be updated by hand whenever the - GPL gets updated (which shouldn't happen that often anyway :-). +* Some files in the automake package are not owned by automake (many + by gnulib, https://gnu.org/s/gnulib); these files are listed in the + $(FETCHFILES) variable in maintainer/maint.mk. They should never be + edited here. All but two of them can be updated from respective + upstreams with "make fetch" (this should be done especially before + releases). The only exceptions are help2man (install the current + version and copy in by hand) and 'lib/COPYING' (from FSF), which + should be updated by hand whenever the GPL gets updated (which + shouldn't happen that often anyway :-). * All changes that are not trivial bug fixes must be mentioned in NEWS.