Re: [PATCH 1/2] Makefile.local: added checks for latest NEWS title

Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Makefile.local: added checks for latest NEWS title

Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 14:17:07 -0300

To: Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> Added target `verify-version-news` which checks that the first line
> in NEWS file has the following properties:
>     First word is 'Notmuch'
>     Second "word" matches the current version
>     Rest of line is in format (201[2-9]-[01][0-9]-[0-3][0-9]

I appreciate the effort, but I wonder if it is worth complicating the
build system further? I'm willing to be swayed either way.

d

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