bug#68004: closed ([PATCH] doc: update location of FETCHFILES variable)

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> [PATCH] doc: update location of FETCHFILES variable
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> Sun, 24 Dec 2023 12:56:36 +0100
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> * HACKING: FETCHFILES has been moved: Makefile.am -> maintainer/maint.mk
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> Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes
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>  HACKING | 17 +++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
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> diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
> index 14cf9d749..75c9cf166 100644
> --- a/HACKING
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> @@ -32,14 +32,15 @@
>    sure to add a test case for it, and to reference such test case from
>    a proper Texinfo comment.
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> -* Some files in the automake package are not owned by automake (many by
> -  gnulib, https://gnu.org/s/gnulib); these files are listed in the
> -  $(FETCHFILES) variable in Makefile.am.  They should never be edited
> -  here.  All but one of them can be updated from respective upstreams
> -  with "make fetch" (this should be done especially before releases).
> -  The only exceptions are help2man (install the current version) and
> -  'lib/COPYING' (from FSF), which should be updated by hand whenever the
> -  GPL gets updated (which shouldn't happen that often anyway :-).
> +* Some files in the automake package are not owned by automake (many
> +  by gnulib, https://gnu.org/s/gnulib); these files are listed in the
> +  $(FETCHFILES) variable in maintainer/maint.mk.  They should never be
> +  edited here.  All but one of them can be updated from respective
> +  upstreams with "make fetch" (this should be done especially before
> +  releases). The only exceptions are help2man (install the current
> +  version) and 'lib/COPYING' (from FSF), which should be updated by hand
> +  whenever the GPL gets updated (which shouldn't happen that often
> +  anyway :-).
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>  * All changes that are not trivial bug fixes must be mentioned in NEWS.
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> 2.34.1
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>     * HACKING: FETCHFILES has been moved: Makefile.am -> maintainer/maint.mk
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> Thanks Dimitri. Installed (I tweaked a couple more words while we were
> there). (Also closing.) --all the best, karl.
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