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diffutils-3.9 released [stable]

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From: Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org>
To: bug-diffutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: diffutils-3.9 released [stable]
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 09:05:15 +0100

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Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:

> This is to announce diffutils-3.9, a stable release.

Thank you!

> To summarize the 931 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
> from a git-cloned diffutils directory:
>   git checkout v3.9
>   git submodule summary v3.8

This results in empty output if the gnulib submodule isn't checked out,
which it isn't on a first git clone of diffutils.  Maybe the
announcement should have `git submodule update --init' in between those
commands?

/Simon

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org>
Cc: 60855 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#60855: diffutils-3.9 released [stable]
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 15:33:49 -0800

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On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 12:06 AM Simon Josefsson via bug-diffutils via
All diffutils discussion. <bug-diffutils <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:
> > This is to announce diffutils-3.9, a stable release.
...
> > To summarize the 931 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
> > from a git-cloned diffutils directory:
> >   git checkout v3.9
> >   git submodule summary v3.8
>
> This results in empty output if the gnulib submodule isn't checked out,
> which it isn't on a first git clone of diffutils.  Maybe the
> announcement should have g  in between those
> commands?

Hi Simon,
Thanks for reporting that. Good point, indeed.
I've made that change to the tiny script I use to generate that part
of the announcement.

In case anyone else wants to use it (to be run after you've run "make
release"), here it is:

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Message #11 received at 60855 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 60855 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#60855: diffutils-3.9 released [stable]
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:53:11 +0100

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Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:

> Hi Simon,
> Thanks for reporting that. Good point, indeed.
> I've made that change to the tiny script I use to generate that part
> of the announcement.
>
> In case anyone else wants to use it (to be run after you've run "make
> release"), here it is:

Thank you -- any particular reason this is not integrated into gnulib's
'make release' NEWS generator?  I always wondered what generated your
announcements with the git-related summaries, and wanted something
similar.

/Simon

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Message #14 received at 60855 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org>
Cc: 60855 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#60855: diffutils-3.9 released [stable]
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:14:27 -0800

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 3:53 PM Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:
>
> > Hi Simon,
> > Thanks for reporting that. Good point, indeed.
> > I've made that change to the tiny script I use to generate that part
> > of the announcement.
> >
> > In case anyone else wants to use it (to be run after you've run "make
> > release"), here it is:
>
> Thank you -- any particular reason this is not integrated into gnulib's
> 'make release' NEWS generator?  I always wondered what generated your
> announcements with the git-related summaries, and wanted something
> similar.

No big reason. Mainly just that no one had said anything, and before today,
it would emit a hard-coded "Jim" and was not shellcheck-clean :-)

I'll add it.

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