Re: [PATCH pkgs] Texinfo 5.x fixes, etc.

Jerry James <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.patches
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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/
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