From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: Get rid of empty AUTHORS file
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:53:46 -0400
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 08:48:11PM -0400, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> the AUTHORS file reads:
> 
> 	This is a dummy AUTHORS file to make automake happy.
> 
> You can make automake happy in an IMO better way:
> 
> 	AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
> 
> at the top of the toplevel Makefile.am.
> (I usually also prefer "AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = subdir-objs" next to 
> foreign.)

The quickest way to get changes into nfs-utils these days is a patch
sent to steved@redhat.com against git://linux-nfs.org/nfs-utils.

--b.