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missing serial number in some automake-provided m4 files

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From: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de>
To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 8483 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8483: missing serial number in soem automake-provided m4 files
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:08:33 +0200

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:43:36AM CEST:
> I've recently noticed that some *.m4 files in the Automake distribution
> lack a serial number:
> 
>   $ cd ~/src/automake
>   $ grep -L '# *serial' m4/*.m4
>   m4/amversion.m4
>   m4/auxdir.m4
>   m4/gcj.m4
>   m4/install-sh.m4
>   m4/mkdirp.m4
>   m4/python.m4
>   m4/runlog.m4
>   m4/strip.m4
>   m4/upc.m4
> 
> Is there a reason for this?

Not that I know of.

> If not, should we add serial numbers to those files?

Yes, please.  Please do a rough check of history, in case they used to
have a serial number at one time.  Pick one that is higher than that.
If master and branch-1.11 have different versions of files, master
should have its serial bumped by a few, let's say five at least, so we
don't run into trouble when we update 1.11.  Patches against active
branches preapproved.

Thanks,
Ralf

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