Release process changes and a few other things

[Mark Doliner]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 12:02 PM, John Bailey <rekkanoryo at rekkanoryo.org> wrote:
> On 06/12/2011 02:36 PM, Mark Doliner wrote:
>> * Get rid of NEWS.
>
> I believe 'make distcheck' will fail if we don't keep NEWS around.  We could, of
> course, stop making use of it.

I believe that passing the "foreign" option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE() in
configure.ac causes autoconf/automake to stop performing this check.

http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Strictness

--Mark