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Bug 450061 - Misguided instruction in gnome-doc-utils user manual
Misguided instruction in gnome-doc-utils user manual
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-doc-utils
Classification: Deprecated
Component: docs
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-doc-utils maintainers
gnome-doc-utils maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-06-22 13:36 UTC by Vincent Geddes
Modified: 2020-03-03 18:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Updates documentation (3.92 KB, patch)
2007-06-22 14:08 UTC, Vincent Geddes 		none Details | Review

Description Vincent Geddes 2007-06-22 13:36:38 UTC 
From Section 2.8:
"4. Add m4 to EXTRA_DIST in the top-level Makefile.am
You must remember to add m4 to EXTRA_DIST insite the top-level Makefile.am, otherwise the directory won't be added to the package and configure will fail (to catch this, you must do make distcheck after make check)."

This does not seem to be relevant anymore. I was able to distcheck without putting  'm4' in EXTRA_DIST. It seems that autotools includes 'm4' automatically. Doing the above also allows an '.svn' directory to be wrongly packed into the tarball (look at any number of package tarballs, including gedit, to see this). 

Epiphany and glade3 no longer follow this instruction.

So I think this instruction should be removed. I will attach a patch.
Comment 1 Vincent Geddes 2007-06-22 14:08:27 UTC 
Created attachment 90453 [details] [review]
Updates documentation

2006-06-22  Vincent Geddes <vgeddes@gnome.org>

        * doc/gnome-doc-make/C/gnome-doc-make.xml:
          - Remove instructions about adding `m4' to EXTRA_DIST.
          - Update to describe Subversion and svn:ignore properties,
            instead of obsolete CVS and .cvsignore files.
Comment 2 Vincent Geddes 2007-08-08 19:27:19 UTC 
ping ;)
Comment 3 André Klapper 2020-03-03 18:36:41 UTC 
gnome-doc-utils has been superseded by yelp-xsl, yelp-tools, and itstool.

gnome-doc-utils will not see any further development, hence closing as WONTFIX.

See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/255