| 2016-12-31 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> |
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| version 1.4.18 |
| * NEWS: Record release date. |
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| doc: abbreviate and update release history |
| * doc/m4.texi (History): Shorten, and call out today's release. |
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| 2016-12-31 Eric Blake <[email protected]> |
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| maint: automate creation of release tag |
| The gnulib makefile was already set up to automate things with |
| 'make release ...', but we were still doing things by hand, and |
| thereby risking missing some steps. |
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| * m4/gnulib-cache.m4 (gl_MODULES): Import do-release-commit-and-tag. |
| * gnulib: Update, for latest version of the script. |
| * HACKING: Mention its use. |
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| 2016-12-31 Eric Blake <[email protected]> |
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| maint: generate ChangeLog from git commits |
| Follow the practice set in numerous other GNU projects, where |
| the ChangeLog (since 2015) is generated from git commit messages. |
| This avoids duplication or subtle differences between the two, |
| as well as making it easier to merge patches across branches |
| (as good as Bruno Haible's 'git-merge-changelog' helper program |
| is, it still doesn't handle cross-branch cherry-picks very well). |
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| * ChangeLog: Move... |
| * ChangeLog-2014: ...to this. |
| * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Ship renamed file. |
| (gen-ChangeLog): New rule, copied mostly from coreutils. |
| (dist-hook): Generate the ChangeLog. |
| * m4/gnulib-cache.m4 (gl_MODULES): Import gitlog-to-changelog. |
| * .gitignore: Ignore ChangeLog. |
| * .gitattributes: Likewise. |
| * HACKING: Reword to match new procedure, and simplify by |
| referring to an external description of ChangeLog style. |
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| 2016-12-31 Eric Blake <[email protected]> |
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| maint: summarize highlights of pending release |
| * NEWS: Add some blurbs. |
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| 2016-12-31 Eric Blake <[email protected]> |
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| maint: make silent builds the default |
| The user still has full control over verbosity levels, both setting |
| their per-project defaults at configure time (or even in a config.site |
| file), as well as a per-run override. But these days, most projects |
| are defaulting to silent rules without user intervention. |
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| * configure.ac (AM_SILENT_RULES): Add, to match what most projects |
| are doing these days. |
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| 2016-12-31 Eric Blake <[email protected]> |
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| maint: release no longer creates a diff file |
| Ever since commit f1cf390 (1.4.14 release), we no longer create |
| diff files as part of the release process. These days, it is |
| assumed that it is easier to download a fresh tarball rather |
| than to try and use a diff file to patch an older tarball. |
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| 2016-12-30 Eric Blake <[email protected]> |
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| doc: drop obsolete @setcontentsaftertitlepage |
| texinfo 6.1 complains (during 'make dvi'): |
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| /home/eblake/m4-1.4/doc/./m4.texi:9: @setcontentsaftertitlepage has been remove |
| d as a Texinfo command; move your @contents command if you want the contents af |
| ter the title page.. |
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| It turns out that eliminating the command has no effect - modern |
| tools correctly emit the contents in-place, right after the title |
| page, so it was leftover cruft from an older time. |
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| * doc/m4.texi: Satisfy newer texinfo. |
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| 2016-12-29 Eric Blake <[email protected]> |
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| build: update to latest gnulib |
| I hit a weird failure during 'make check', and traced it to a recent |
| gnulib regression in parallel test safety. Pick up the gnulib fix. |
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| * gnulib: Update to latest, to fix failure in getopt tests. |
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| 2016-12-29 Eric Blake <[email protected]> |
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| maint: regenerate bootstrap |
| Missed during the copyright update. |
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| * bootstrap: Regenerate. |
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| 2016-12-29 Eric Blake <[email protected]> |
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| maint: bump copyright year |
| Sadly, there's no commit in 2015, which means we don't get to benefit |
| from using a copyright range. |
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| Done with 'make update-copyright'. |
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| * all files: Version control now has a commit in 2016. |
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| 2016-12-29 Eric Blake <[email protected]> |
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| gnulib: Update to latest |
| * gnulib: Update to latest. |
| * m4/gnulib-cache.m4: Regenerate. |
| * src/macro.c (expand_macro): Deal with obstack API change. |
| * src/builtin.c (mkstemp_helper): Likewise. |
