Re: [PATCH 0/8] Reorganize automake internals for distribution tarball creation

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Sunday 09 October 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> This patch series is meant to fix Automake bugs 9546 and 9651.
> 
> It will do so by a quite extensive reorganization (and partial
> simplification) of the code used internally by automake to decide
> when, where, and which files to distribute.  Some patches here will
> introduce a few minor backwards incompatibilities (duly noted in
> the corresponding NEWS addition), but I believe those are warranted
> by the improvements in consistency and correctness offered by the
> series.
> 
JFTR: I've used the automake resulting from the application of these
patches to bootstrap, check and distcheck the master branches of a few
GNU packages (gawk, sed, grep, gzip, m4, libtool, autoconf, diffutils,
findutils, coreutils, parted), and found no regression.  This has made
me more confident about the goodness of this series.  Still, if any
reader of the list has the possibility of trying out the series on a
package of his own, or a non-mainstream package he's interested in,
this would be the best time to do so.  To simplify such a work, I've
pushed the patch series to a temporary public branch `dist-refactor'
(branched off of `test-protocols').  Note that, while I hope to be
able to merge this branch to master with at most few follow-up fixes
and improvements, at this point I cannot yet guarantee that the branch
won't have to be rewinded or scrapped, so "caveat user".

Regards,
  Stefano