Re: [PATCH] Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Wednesday 18 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 02:50:50PM CEST:
> > The attached patch fix a potential regression in a couple of
> > tests, introduced my recent patch "Minor improvements and fixes
> > in tests `depcomp*.test'."
> > 
> > OK to push to maint ASAP?
> 
> Ideally, you'd commit this to a temporary branch based off of the
> patch that introduced the regression, and merge that branch into
> maint. If we follow this strategy consistently, then there one can
> simply merge the temp branch into all branches that have the
> parent.
Smart.  Would make another nice addition for HACKING ;-)
BTW, how should I call that temporary branch?
> There is a git one-liner for finding out this set but I
> forgot it now.
Well, anyway, I applied the offending change to maint, and pushed 
after merging to master and branch-1.11, which shouldn't be merged 
into other branches AFAIK; so we should be pretty safe in this case.

> There is no need for hurry, all greps we know treat \o the same
> as o.
Good.  Because now I'm dealing with the autotools-override branch,
and I'd like to finish it off before doing anything else on Automake.

Regards,
   Stefano