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Re: to-do: formalize/automate tracking of files maintained elsewhere
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: "GNU C. Library" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 21:28:39 +0000
- Subject: Re: to-do: formalize/automate tracking of files maintained elsewhere
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- References: <20130925202541 dot 3AD6F2C07C at topped-with-meat dot com>
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I recently updated manual/freemanuals.texi to match the canonical GNU file.
> This reminded me that we have various files of that nature, i.e. copied
> into our repository from some other canonical GNU place, and no scheme for
> making sure they stay up to date. The starting place of course is to list
> them all somewhere, and say something about the subject on the wiki.
<https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Regeneration> is intended to cover all
cases of checked-in files not maintained as source in glibc (whether files
that come verbatim from upstream source, or generated files).
Note that scripts/update-copyrights has its own list, used to avoid
modifying copyright dates in such files.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com