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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] devel: add release-checks.sh\r
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+Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:\r
+\r
+> Currently Makefile.local contains some machine executable release\r
+> checking functionality. This is unnecessarily complex way to do it:\r
+\r
+Hi Tomi;\r
+\r
+Overall this looks good, but there seems to be one minor bug:\r
+\r
+- If there are extra files under man/man1 (e.g. from "make\r
+ update-versions"), then the check "Checking that manual page dates and\r
+ versions" fails, even if it passes after running "git clean -fx"\r
+\r
+I don't really think this is a blocker, but on the other hand it isn't\r
+urgent to ship the patch either.\r
+\r
+Another piece of Makefile.local that isn't really "make" is\r
+"update-versions". On the other hand, it isn't nearly as long or\r
+complicated as the release checks.\r
+\r
+d\r