[g-b-s patch] Re: Trial plotutils packages again

[Charles Wilson]

Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Charles Wilson on 10/12/2005 10:09 PM:
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>>Within the README file
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>>>[t]here's no need to list...
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>> exactly which files are included within each of
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>>>... the tarballs; in fact it's actually discouraged (because it always
>>>ends up getting out of date).
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> Actually, the generic-build-script template recommends this.  Are you
> proposing changing the template? 

Huh?  I thought for sure I saw something to the effect of my statement 
on the mailing list...

Ah, here it is:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-05/msg00198.html

But my memory was faulty; no conclusion was reached in that thread.


> Meanwhile, I've been sitting on this
> patch to the templates:
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> 2005-10-13  Eric Blake  <ebb9-PGZyUNKar/Q@public.gmane.org>
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> 	* templates/generic-readme: Add License, Language.  List date
> 	when releases are made.
> 	* templates/generic-build-script: Fix typo when failing.

I don't see anything wrong with the patch, but I'm not the keeper of the 
g-b-s stuff anymore.

> Maybe the patch should be tweaked to recommend "cygcheck -l $PKG" instead
> of the current recommendation of an explicit list that is likely to get
> out of date.

Yes, that's a pretty good idea.

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Chuck