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[PATCH] doc: update location of FETCHFILES variable

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#68004: closed ([PATCH] doc: update location of FETCHFILES
 variable)
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 23:05:03 +0000

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From: Dimitri Papadopoulos <dimitri.papadopoulos <at> gmail.com>
To: automake-patches <at> gnu.org
Cc: Dimitri Papadopoulos <dimitri.papadopoulos <at> gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: update location of FETCHFILES variable
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 12:56:36 +0100

* HACKING: FETCHFILES has been moved: Makefile.am -> maintainer/maint.mk

Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes
---
 HACKING | 17 +++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 14cf9d749..75c9cf166 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -32,14 +32,15 @@
   sure to add a test case for it, and to reference such test case from
   a proper Texinfo comment.
 
-* 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 :-).
 
 * All changes that are not trivial bug fixes must be mentioned in NEWS.
 
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From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: dimitri.papadopoulos <at> gmail.com
Cc: 68004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#68004] [PATCH] doc: update location of FETCHFILES variable
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 16:04:08 -0700

    * HACKING: FETCHFILES has been moved: Makefile.am -> maintainer/maint.mk

Thanks Dimitri. Installed (I tweaked a couple more words while we were
there). (Also closing.) --all the best, karl.

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