dist-git wordsmithing wanted

[Hans Ulrich Niedermann]

On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 23:31 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > It was suggested to keep the Makefile that exists in every package
> > module/branch in CVS right now, but set it up so that any Make command
> > issued would print a reminder to the user that the Make system has been
> > retired and to use fedpkg.  
> 
> So the expectation would be people leave this boilerplate around forever
> (as the wordsmithing drifts)?  Or do you expect every maintainer who knows
> about fedpkg will just remove Makefile from their git trees first thing
> after the conversion?
> 
> Frankly, I don't see the point.  So you're a Fedora maintainer and you
> managed to get a git checkout after the conversion, but you can't read a
> wiki page that tells you how to use fedpkg instead of make.  (Presumably

I agree.

Either we keep around a Makefile in every package which translates all
the old make calls to fedpkg calls (which I cannot remember being a
serious proposal), or we cut the compatibility.

Count me in on this reminder:

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.