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| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2014-01-16 21:11:36 -0500 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2014-01-16 21:11:36 -0500 |
| commit | 0d613483907fc9b053de10dfb0377f2b67eac682 (patch) | |
| tree | 402d8c31c86b83cc782306400daf72563326b213 /admin/make-tarball.txt | |
| parent | 56db2b1bfd76350495cb1e791c98cfe00df26c10 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-0d613483907fc9b053de10dfb0377f2b67eac682.tar.gz | |
Make M-x authors return zero *Authors Errors* from current logs
* lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el (authors-obsolete-files-regexps):
(authors-ignored-files): Add some entries, remove others.
(authors-ambiguous-files, authors-valid-file-names): Add some entries.
(authors-renamed-files-alist): Add, remove, and adjust entries.
(authors-renamed-files-regexps): Add some entries.
Remove some very broad ones. Make some entries `lax'.
(authors-lax-changelogs): New constant.
(authors-disambiguate-file-name): Treat top-level specially.
(authors-lax-changelog-p): New function.
(authors-canonical-file-name): Check file as written against
authors-valid-file-names. Do not special-case etc/.
Handle `lax' logs and authors-renamed-files-regexps elements.
* admin/make-tarball.txt: Update for no expected *Authors Errors*.
Diffstat (limited to 'admin/make-tarball.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | admin/make-tarball.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt index fc7f81f0c28..50183f75561 100644 --- a/admin/make-tarball.txt +++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt @@ -28,14 +28,10 @@ General steps (for each step, check for possible errors): M-: (require 'authors) RET M-x authors RET - There is almost guaranteed to be an "*Authors Errors*" buffer with - problems caused by certain bad ChangeLog entries. You can ignore - the very old ones (eg lisp/erc has a lot). If there are errors - related to new entries (especially entries that are new since the - last pretest), see if you can fix them. If there was a ChangeLog - typo, fix it. If a file was deleted or renamed, consider adding - an appropriate entry to authors-ignored-files, authors-valid-file-names, - or authors-renamed-files-alist. + If there is an "*Authors Errors*" buffer, address the issues. + If there was a ChangeLog typo, fix it. If a file was deleted or + renamed, consider adding an appropriate entry to authors-ignored-files, + authors-valid-file-names, or authors-renamed-files-alist. If necessary, repeat M-x authors after making those changes. Save the "*Authors*" buffer as etc/AUTHORS. |