maint.mk: add a URL discussing the no-@acronym policy

* top/maint.mk (sc_texinfo_acronym): Add a URL in a comment.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 217fbba012acbd48a28e85786236ac65283552fb..f530101687079467b6fd45c1809121e325929af4 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-11-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+       maint.mk: add a URL discussing the no-@acronym policy
+       * top/maint.mk (sc_texinfo_acronym): Add a URL in a comment.
+
 2010-11-18  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
        ftoastr: depend on snprintf, improve comments

diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
index bd5431b276d6cf1a7f462042a74b0c73bbe3ed1b..315b22317e5a2dab8ad583d009ae4e7c7583111e 100644 (file)
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -741,7 +741,8 @@ sc_GFDL_version:
        halt='GFDL vN, N!=3'                                            \
          $(_sc_search_regexp)
 
-# Don't use Texinfo @acronym{} as it is not a good idea.
+# Don't use Texinfo's @acronym{}.
+# http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-03/msg00321.html
 texinfo_suffix_re_ ?= \.(txi|texi(nfo)?)$$
 sc_texinfo_acronym:
        @prohibit='@acronym\{'                                          \