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automake 1.15 overwriting custom INSTALL file

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From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
To: Emil <laine.emil <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20373 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20373: automake 1.15 overwriting custom INSTALL file (fixed, not a bug)
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2017 14:02:37 +0100

Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hello Emil
>
> Emil <laine.emil <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I just realized this is actually not a bug, and was simply caused by the
>> -f option passed to autoreconf.
>>
>> Autoreconf seems to forward it to automake as the --force-missing option,
>> which, according to the manual, "force[s] update of standard files".
>>
>> Autoreconf's man entry for -f simply states that it will "consider all
>> files obsolete", which for me wasn't very clear about its implications,
>> so I couldn't link it to the unwanted behavior I was experiencing.
>
> The Autoreconf and its manual is maintained by Autoconf package.

should be :
  "The autoreconf program and its manual are maintained by Autoconf"

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Mathieu Lirzin
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