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Format of NEWS (navigating in it)

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Message #39 received at 20403 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: psainty <at> orcon.net.nz, rgm <at> gnu.org, Ulrich.Windl <at> rz.uni-regensburg.de,
 20403 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it)
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 08:27:23 +0200

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 06:02:42 +0100
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>, 
> 	Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl <at> rz.uni-regensburg.de>, 20403 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Maybe the etc/NEWS symlink doesn't even need to be versioned.
> > The build process could construct it based on the version number.
> 
> That makes sense to me.  When creating source distribution tarballs,
> the file could simpy be copied or moved into place in case there are
> problems with symlinks on this or that platform (I guess MS-Windows?).

Tarballs with symlinks are problematic, so I'm against having symlinks
in the release tarball.  But we could make NEWS a copy of the
corresponding NEWS.XY when we produce the tarball, if that's what
people prefer.

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