On 18 September 2017 at 14:36, Rüdiger Meier <sweet_f_a@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/18/2017 11:07 AM, Karel Zak wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 07:49:01PM +0100, Sami Kerola wrote: >>> from-gnulib-commit: e277cd7c6cf6435d9d4d380fd6cef0510e3f5afe >>> Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@xxxxxx> >>> --- >>> tools/git-version-gen | 137 >>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- >>> 1 file changed, 102 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) >> >> >> I'm not sure about this. Did you check all the changes? >> >> We have some local changes to the file, see >> >> git whatchanged tools/git-version-gen >> It would be nice to be sure that all works as expected. > > > I wouldn't touch this neither. Last year I've reviewed that really carefully > while fixing some issues with broken version numbers, see 85004b14 and also > the other ones from the same patch-set. Seems that Sami's patch would revert > some of these changes. > > At that time there was also the question why not following gnulib and I > tried to > justify this like this: > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg13374.html Hi Rudi and Karel, Oh yes, I did not think too much how this was modified to be util-linux specific. Adding a comment that will tell it clearly that one should not simply sync from gnulib would be nice. -- Sami Kerola http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html