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missing:138 has trailing whitespace

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From: karl <at> freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: missing:138 has trailing whitespace
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:06:16 GMT

I saw there has been some discussion on bug-gnulib about removing
"missing" and some of the other "internal" autotools helper scripts from
gnulib.  That makes sense, but I didn't see a final conclusion to the
discussion?

Meanwhile, I have been unable to autoupdate missing from automake to
gnulib -- maybe it's just as well -- because there is a trailing space
on what is currently line 138, namely the "blank" line between these
other two:

  printf '%s\n' "'$1' is $msg."
 
  configure_deps="'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'"

Best,
Karl

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From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
To: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
Cc: 11803 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11803: missing:138 has trailing whitespace
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:17:54 +0200

tags 11803 notabug
close 11803
thanks

Hi Karl.

On 06/28/2012 12:06 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
> I saw there has been some discussion on bug-gnulib about removing
> "missing" and some of the other "internal" autotools helper scripts from
> gnulib.  That makes sense, but I didn't see a final conclusion to the
> discussion?
>
Here it is:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-06/msg00352.html>
So we have basically agreed that gnulib should stop syncing 'missing'
from the Automake repository; as well as other scripts that are to be
considered "implementation details" of Automake.

> Meanwhile, I have been unable to autoupdate missing from automake to
> gnulib -- maybe it's just as well -- because there is a trailing space
> on what is currently line 138, namely the "blank" line between these
> other two:
> 
>   printf '%s\n' "'$1' is $msg."
>  
>   configure_deps="'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'"
>
This seem like a bug in the autoupdate process -- why fail hard just for
trailing whitespaces?  While I agree they are annoying and ugly, a simple
warning should suffice, no?

Anyway, I'll soon commit a patch to fix all the instances of trailing
whitespace in the Automake.

Thanks,
  Stefano

Message #11 received at 11803 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
To: 11803 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: close bug report
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:45:09 +0200

severity 11803 minor
close 11803
thanks

Oops, I forgot to close this bug when we fixed it.  Closing it now.

Stefano

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