$ find * -type f |xargs perl contrib/scripts/spdx.pl
  $ git rm contrib/scripts/spdx.pl

We no longer add these. If you use Emacs, configure it yourself.

Also, due to our "smart-tab" usage the editor anyway does a subpar
job handling our tabs. However, on the upside every user can choose
whatever tab-width he/she prefers. If "smart-tabs" are used properly
(like we do), every tab-width will work.

No manual changes, just ran commands:

    F=($(git grep -l -e '-\*-'))
    sed '1 { /\/\* *-\*-  *[mM]ode.*\*\/$/d }'     -i "${F[@]}"
    sed '1,4 { /^\(#\|--\|dnl\) *-\*- [mM]ode/d }' -i "${F[@]}"

Check remaining lines with:

    git grep -e '-\*-'

The ultimate purpose of this is to cleanup our files and eventually use
SPDX license identifiers. For that, first get rid of the boilerplate lines.

The library is called "libnm_core". So the dependency should be called
"libnm_core_dep", like in all other cases.

(cherry picked from commit c27ad37c278461fd783b6db56844683ab3088345)

Add missing trailing commas that avoids getting noise when another
file/parameter is added and eases reviewing changes[0].

[0] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dconf/merge_requests/11#note_291585

We commonly don't use the glib typedefs for char/short/int/long,
but their C types directly.

    $ git grep '\<g\(char\|short\|int\|long\|float\|double\)\>' | wc -l
    587
    $ git grep '\<\(char\|short\|int\|long\|float\|double\)\>' | wc -l
    21114

One could argue that using the glib typedefs is preferable in
public API (of our glib based libnm library) or where it clearly
is related to glib, like during

  g_object_set (obj, PROPERTY, (gint) value, NULL);

However, that argument does not seem strong, because in practice we don't
follow that argument today, and seldomly use the glib typedefs.
Also, the style guide for this would be hard to formalize, because
"using them where clearly related to a glib" is a very loose suggestion.

Also note that glib typedefs will always just be typedefs of the
underlying C types. There is no danger of glib changing the meaning
of these typedefs (because that would be a major API break of glib).

A simple style guide is instead: don't use these typedefs.

No manual actions, I only ran the bash script:

  FILES=($(git ls-files '*.[hc]'))
  sed -i \
      -e 's/\<g\(char\|short\|int\|long\|float\|double\)\>\( [^ ]\)/\1\2/g' \
      -e 's/\<g\(char\|short\|int\|long\|float\|double\)\>  /\1   /g' \
      -e 's/\<g\(char\|short\|int\|long\|float\|double\)\>/\1/g' \
      "${FILES[@]}"

Coccinelle:

  @@
  expression a, b;
  @@
  -a ? a : b
  +a ?: b

Applied with:

  spatch --sp-file ternary.cocci --in-place --smpl-spacing --dir .

With some manual adjustments on spots that Cocci didn't catch for
reasons unknown.

Thanks to the marvelous effort of the GNU compiler developer we can now
spare a couple of bits that could be used for more important things,
like this commit message. Standards commitees yet have to catch up.

Normalize coding style by removing consecutive empty lines from C
sources and headers.

https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/pull/108

It already defaults to the right value. We only need to define
NM_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED, so that parts of our internal build
can make use of deprecated API.

We don't need to have two version defines "CUR" and "NEXT".

The main purpose of these macros (if not their only), is to
make NM_AVAILABLE_IN_* and NM_DEPRECATED_IN_* macros work.

1) At the precise commit of a release, "CUR" and "NEXT" must be identical,
because whenever the user configures NM_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED and
NM_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED, then they both compare against the current
version, at which point "CUR" == "NEXT".

2) Every other commit aside the release, is a development version that leads
up the the next coming release. But as far as versioning is concerned, such
a development version should be treated like that future release. It's unstable
API and it may or may not be close to later API of the release. But
we shall treat it as that version. Hence, also in this case, we want to
set both "NM_VERSION_CUR_STABLE" and again NEXT to the future version.

This makes NM_VERSION_NEXT_STABLE redundant.

Previously, the separation between current and next version would for
example allow that NM_VERSION_CUR_STABLE is the previously release
stable API, and NM_VERSION_NEXT_STABLE is the version of the next upcoming
stable API. So, we could allow "examples" to make use of development
API, but other(?) internal code still restrict to unstable API. But it's
unclear which other code would want to avoid current development.

Also, the points 1) and 2) were badly understood. Note that for our
previousy releases, we usually didn't bump the macros at the stable
release (and if we did, we didn't set them to be the same). While using
two macros might be more powerful, it is hard to grok and easy to
forget to bump the macros a the right time. One macro shall suffice.

All this also means, that *immediately* after making a new release, we shall
bump the version number in `configure.ac` and "NM_VERSION_CUR_STABLE".