Re: [PATCH] {master} tests: enable 'errexit' shell flag by default.

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Tuesday 11 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 09:32:39PM CET:
> > On Tuesday 11 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > Remains only bumping copyrights.
> > >
> > Hmm... Honestly, I left that out deliberately, since the edits done by
> > this patch to the test scripts are very obvious, and because I usually
> > take the copyright years to be a rough indicator of how long a file
> > hasn't been touched by "real" edits (I know the git history is more
> > faithful on this, but still).
> > 
> > > For that, I guess since the testsuite
> > > is going to be churned completely anyway, I suggest we just use the
> > > update-copyright script from gnulib to update it overall and be done
> > > with it.  Would you be willing to do this (preapproved; with
> > > UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_USE_INTERVALS unset)?
> > >
> > In light of what I said above, do you still believe the copyright bump
> > is really necessary?  If yes, I will amend the patch to include it.
> 
> Well, I'm not going to make it a requirement to do along this patch,
> but it will then need to be done before the next release (by somebody).
> I'm not actually sure what rules FSF requires as to minor edits, but
> bumping in that case is never wrong.
>
Better do the bumping right away then.  Will do before pushing.

Thanks,
  Stefano