a few patches for gnome-multi-writer

[Richard Hughes]

Hey,

All look good to me, to master please.

Richard.

On 4 September 2016 at 15:30, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> I hope you're doing well.
>
> We are currently in the process of packaging GNOME 3.22 for Debian.
> gnome-multi-writer has been added to the apps moduleset, so the Debian
> GNOME packaging team has taken over the package.
>
> While preparing the upload, we stumbled upon a few issues, which we
> patched in our Debian package and which you might want to apply
> upstream. The patches are attached.
>
> [PATCH 1/3] build: Don't remove NEWS and ChangeLog on distclean
>
> Those should only be removed on 'maintainer-clean'. See
> https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Standard-Targets.html
>
>
> [PATCH 2/3] build: Move gnome-multi-writer-probe to libexecdir
>
> gnome-multi-writer-probe is a helper binary which is not supposed to be
> run directly by the user, so move it to libexecdir.
>
> [PATCH 3/3] Drop unused build dependencies
>
> We don't use gobject-introspection and don't ship any help documents.
> So remove those dependencies from configure.ac.
>
>
> I understand that g-m-w might get documentation in the future, but G-I
> seems a bit unlikely and most likely the result of copying a skeleton
> project.
>
>
> If you have further questions, regarding those patches, please don't
> hesitate to ask.
>
> I would have preferred to send them via the GNOME bugtracker, but it
> seems there hasn't been created a product yet in bugzilla.
> Would be great if you can request one.
>
> Regards,
> Michael
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