build: once again distribute .tar.gz files

* configure.ac: Reenable distribution of gzip-compressed
tarballs, for Guix bootstrapping reasons as discussed at:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2020-02/msg00042.html
* THANKS.in: Remove me, as now a committer.
* NEWS (Build-related): Mention this.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 841f3f854e82ace630e3a159ac6e6f1ba4703180..9f365372bfc5b4653dba43722c727102cd498074 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   "ppc-cmm-fs", and "z3fold" file systems.
   stat -f -c%T now reports the file system type, and tail -f uses inotify.
 
+** Build-related
+
+  gzip-compressed tarballs are distributed once again
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 8.31 (2019-03-10) [stable]
 

diff --git a/THANKS.in b/THANKS.in
index 48f6c04c72143032f44d0c7b61a821080bc770a3..0424c22fb86411542a7b62b58f4d42f72f0389f7 100644 (file)
--- a/THANKS.in
+++ b/THANKS.in
@@ -279,7 +279,6 @@ Jamie McClelland                    jm@mayfirst.org
 Jan Engelhardt                      jengelh@medozas.de
 Jan Fedak                           J.Fedak@sh.cvut.cz
 Jan Moringen                        jan.moringen@uni-bielefeld.de
-Jan Nieuwenhuizen                   janneke@gnu.org
 Janos Farkas                        chexum@shadow.banki.hu
 Jan-Pawel Wrozstinski               jpwroz@gmail.com
 Jari Aalto                          jari.aalto@cante.net

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e123e981a6282ddb1f0b41f9a18bf8bcfb90e308..c2ad08c39301a5eaa8dff89596ceb04413389d32 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/ls.c])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([lib/config.h:lib/config.hin])
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.2 no-dist-gzip dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests
-                  subdir-objects])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.2 dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests subdir-objects])
 AM_SILENT_RULES([yes]) # make --enable-silent-rules the default.
 
 dnl POSIXCHECK is worthwhile for maintainers, but adds several seconds