Status of the merge

[Roland McGrath]

> Yes, cvs.fedora Makefile.common diverged from Red Hat's internal
> Makefile.common.  Much in RH's doesn't make sense in Fedora's, but some
> does.  If you find functionality missing, please request specific things
> get added in.

I'm talking about package-specific stuff package maintainers have put in
their own Makefile.  Everything I'm aware of lets Makefile.common do
whatever it does, and just adds some things that the maintainers also use.
If maintainers have to recover all their Makefile bits by hand from the old
history, that's not the end of the world.  It would be better if they at
least got told about it explicitly for each Makefile that didn't match the
old vanilla boilerplate verbatim.

I'm now suddenly wondering if you might be doing something completely insane.
The message I got kind of made it sound like fresh stuff was being added.  As
if you imported files with fresh cvs commits.  Instead of copying the old
repository directories from /cvs/dist to /cvs/extras with their RCS files
completely intact, so that every developer's existing checkout can be
salvaged just by diddling CVS/Root (and worst case CVS/Repository) files. 
If you did that, I might just have to launch my doomsday weapon and end it all.


Thanks,
Roland