$ 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.

This removes libnm-glib, libnm-glib-vpn, and libnm-util for good.
The it has been replaced with libnm since NetworkManager 1.0, disabled
by default since 1.12 and no up-to-date distributions ship it for years
now.

Removing the libraries allows us to:

* Remove the horrible hacks that were in place to deal with accidental use
  of both the new and old library in a single process.
* Relief the translators of maintenance burden of similar yet different
  strings.
* Get rid of known bad code without chances of ever getting fixed
  (libnm-glib/nm-object.c and libnm-glib/nm-object-cache.c)
* Generally lower the footprint of the releases and our workspace

If there are some really really legacy users; they can just build
libnm-glib and friends from the NetworkManager-1.16 distribution. The
D-Bus API is stable and old libnm-glib will keep working forever.

https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/pull/308

We need this for a little little longer :(

This reverts commit 1de8383ad9fdfc8f552117e5d109bdfa7005634b.

This removes libnm-glib, libnm-glib-vpn, and libnm-util for good.
The it has been replaced with libnm since NetworkManager 1.0, disabled
by default since 1.12 and no up-to-date distributions ship it for years
now.

Removing the libraries allows us to:

* Remove the horrible hacks that were in place to deal with accidental use
  of both the new and old library in a single process.
* Relief the translators of maintenance burden of similar yet different
  strings.
* Get rid of known bad code without chances of ever getting fixed
  (libnm-glib/nm-object.c and libnm-glib/nm-object-cache.c)
* Generally lower the footprint of the releases and our workspace

If there are some really really legacy users; they can just build
libnm-glib and friends from the NetworkManager-1.16 distribution. The
D-Bus API is stable and old libnm-glib will keep working forever.

https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/pull/308

"nm-macros-interal.h" already includes <errno.h> and <string.h>.
No need to include it everywhere else too.

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[@]}"

On slow architectures it can take longer then 3s for the test service to
start up.

Use two common defines NM_BUILD_SRCDIR and NM_BUILD_BUILDDIR
for specifying the location of srcdir and builddir.

Note that this is only relevant for tests, as they expect
a certain layout of the directories, to find files that concern
them.