From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31888 invoked by alias); 4 Jan 2007 22:02:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 31793 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Jan 2007 22:02:58 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from heller.inter.net.il (HELO heller.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.73) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:02:52 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-66-129.inter.net.il [80.230.66.129]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id BLJ75724 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:02:48 +0200 (IST) Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:02:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Daniel Jacobowitz CC: gdb@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20070104044149.GA4414@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Wed, 3 Jan 2007 23:41:49 -0500) Subject: Re: Copyright updates Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20070104011636.GA31905@nevyn.them.org> <20070104044149.GA4414@nevyn.them.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-01/txt/msg00072.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 23:41:49 -0500 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > Cc: gdb@sourceware.org > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 06:32:06AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Why are we including a package in GDB that is part of Emacs, and > > why modify it while doing that? Can't we simply tell people ``use > > copyright.el from Emacs''? > > Pragmatics: Because I needed to modify it to get the results I posted. > Otherwise, it has no respect for margins - it would just push things > further and further out to the right. And because the version in the > last release of emacs was too old to use, and the version in emacs CVS > needs to be modified to work with my system's installed emacs. The best way to solve this is to modify the Emacs version to avoid the problem with margins. I'd prefer if we didn't maintain a tailored version in the GDB tree. > It's probably possible to rewrite my changes to use an installed CVS > emacs and its copyright.el plus a little extra goo, but I can't do > it; my Lisp is too weak and I've spent all the time on automating > this that I can afford to. I will have a look and try to fix the official version in a few days.