Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:31:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
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To: Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>
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Subject: Re: generic-build-script extension to update version numbers in  README
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On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Christian Franke wrote:

> the build-script of the smartmontools package creates the
> "Cygwin/package-*.README" file from
> "srcdir/CYGWIN-PATCHES/package.README.in" by replacing VER/REL with the
> current version/release numbers.
>
> This might be useful for other packages to avoid extra editing of README
> on each minor release.
>
> A patch for generic-build-script 1.43 is attached.

Christian,

I'd like to discuss this patch, and cygwin-apps@ is the proper place for
this discussion.  It's nicer if the whole thread is on one list.  Would
you mind resubmitting this patch to cygwin-apps@?
	Igor
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