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From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Vitaly Chikunov <vt@altlinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ima-evm-utils] Drop empty NEWS file
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 13:54:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200723115457.GA26679@dell5510> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1595503098.5211.85.camel@linux.ibm.com>

Hi Mimi,

...
> After renaming "ChangeLog" to "NEWS" as discussed, autotools now
> complains about the missing "ChangeLog" file.

> automake has a number of flavors[1][2].  The "foreign" flavor, which
> can be supplied as an option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, doesn't require the
> NEWS, COPYING, AUTHORS, ChangeLog, or README files to exist.

> Although renaming the files didn't help, it makes sense.  The patch
> does both - renames ChangeLog and uses the "foreign" option.

Thanks for fixing it. foreign flavor fits our needs better than gnu.
Autotools "features" like this (having strange gnu flavor as the default)
explain why people keep introducing new build systems like Meson (which brings
other problems).

Kind regards,
Petr

> Mimi

> [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#index-automake-options
> [2] https://autotools.io/automake/options.html

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-23 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-22 11:47 [PATCH ima-evm-utils] Drop empty NEWS file Petr Vorel
2020-07-22 14:27 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-07-22 14:45   ` Vitaly Chikunov
2020-07-22 14:50     ` Petr Vorel
2020-07-22 15:31       ` Mimi Zohar
2020-07-23 11:18         ` Mimi Zohar
2020-07-23 11:54           ` Petr Vorel [this message]
2020-07-23 12:07             ` Mimi Zohar
2020-07-23 12:29               ` Petr Vorel
2020-07-23 14:04                 ` Vitaly Chikunov
2020-07-23 14:30                   ` [PATCH ima-evm-utils] release feature discussion [renamed from Drop empty NEWS file] Mimi Zohar
2020-07-23 17:05                     ` Petr Vorel
2020-07-23 18:04                       ` Mimi Zohar
2020-07-24  5:28                   ` [PATCH ima-evm-utils] Drop empty NEWS file Petr Vorel
2020-07-22 14:45   ` Petr Vorel

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