+2025-03-01 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+ package-version: Improve wording in './configure --help'.
+ Reported by Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl> in
+ <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2025-03/msg00000.html>.
+ * doc/package-version.texi: Recommend a dummy version number named
+ 'package', not 'dummy'.
+ * m4/init-package-version.m4: Update comments accordingly.
+ * build-aux/git-version-gen: Likewise.
+
2025-02-28 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
vc-mtime: Fix module description.
# since configure.ac no longer includes a version string, Makefile rules
# should not depend on configure.ac for version updates).
#
-# AC_INIT([@var{package}], [dummy])
+# AC_INIT([@var{package}], [package])
# AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([@var{unique-file-in-source-dir}])
# AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
# VERSION_NUMBER=`cd $srcdir \
The recommended code pattern is
@example
-AC_INIT([@var{package}], [dummy])
+AC_INIT([@var{package}], [package])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([@var{unique-file-in-source-dir}])
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
VERSION_NUMBER=`cd $srcdir \
# init-package-version.m4
-# serial 6
+# serial 7
dnl Copyright (C) 1992-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
dnl This file is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU
dnl General Public License. As a special exception to the GNU General
#
# With the macro defined in this file, the approach can be coded like this:
#
-# AC_INIT(PACKAGE, [dummy], [MORE OPTIONS])
+# AC_INIT(PACKAGE, [package], [MORE OPTIONS])
# AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(WITNESS)
# . $srcdir/../version.sh
# gl_INIT_PACKAGE_VERSION($VERSION_NUMBER)