Re: [PATCH pkgs] Texinfo 5.x fixes, etc.
Jerry James <[email protected]>
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On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Michael Sperber <[email protected]> wrote: > Jerry James <[email protected]> writes: > >> - Restore CVS keyword expansions that were lost during the transition >> to mercurial. > > The keyword expansion also bothers me - do we really need this? Even on > CVS, it was a lot of trouble. Mercurial also discourages it: > > http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/KeywordExtension The idea is simply to show that the file versions are the same as the ones we had in CVS. I don't anticipate updating them further. As we roll forward to newer package versions, I expect the CVS keywords to disappear. See my reply to Stephen for some cases where this makes a difference in the information provided by the packages to Lisp or human consumers. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/