maint: announcement text tweaks.

* HACKING: mention DEVEL_SNAPSHOT=1 for us.
* NEWS: tweak text.
* maintainer/maint.mk (announcement): tweak text,
ls -l ./announcement as a clue as to where the result is.

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 4c2fd641fb30a693df36002f08a16364e8448e29..14cf9d7499e5a9877d63f9cc90ef45f292606c71 100644 (file)
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -497,6 +497,8 @@
   of $(VERSION)).
 
 * Run "make git-upload-release".
+  For pretest releases: "DEVEL_SNAPSHOT=1 make git-upload-release".
+  
   This will first verify that you are releasing from a tagged version
   and that the local git repository and working tree are clean and
   up-to-date, and will then run "make dist" to create the tarballs,

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 249725f99bb5f0b929e815eeb0f3b085918acfc1..5b56a7283eaee40aa9adf21a6f1c1cb5990e23f2 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ New in 1.17:
     filesystem that supports sub-second resolution; otherwise, we fall
     back to one-second granularity as before. When everything is
     supported, a new line `Features: subsecond-mtime' is printed by
-    automake --version (and autom4mte --version). (bugs #64756, #67670)
+    automake --version (and autom4mte --version). (bug#64756, bug#67670)
 
   - The default value of $ARFLAGS is now "cr" instead of "cru", to better
     support deterministic builds. (bug#20082)
@@ -83,9 +83,7 @@ New in 1.17:
     (bug#34151 and others)
 
   - Pass any options given to AM_PROG_LEX on to AC_PROG_LEX.
-    (bug#65600 and bug#65730)
-
-* Miscellaneous changes
+    (bug#65600, bug#65730)
 
 * Obsolescence:
 

diff --git a/maintainer/maint.mk b/maintainer/maint.mk
index 270cff2b9de8470e887e7b4e73caa98f71c692ac..927af28b5a6942a49451f747f466a64273172571 100644 (file)
--- a/maintainer/maint.mk
+++ b/maintainer/maint.mk
@@ -308,10 +308,12 @@ announcement: NEWS
          && X "Please report bugs and problems to" \
               "<$(PACKAGE_BUGREPORT)>," \
          && X "and send general comments and feedback to" \
-              "<$(PACKAGE_MAILINGLIST)>." \
+              "<$(PACKAGE_MAILINGLIST)>," \
+         && X "and patches to" \
+              "<automake-patches@gnu.org>." \
          && X \
          && X "Thanks to everyone who has reported problems, contributed" \
-         && X "patches, and helped testing Automake!" \
+         && X "patches, and helped test Automake!" \
          && X \
          && X "-*-*-*-" \
          && X \
@@ -320,7 +322,8 @@ announcement: NEWS
                (/^~~~/ && wait_for_end) { print; exit(0) } \
                { print } \
             ' <$(srcdir)/NEWS >> $@-t \
-         && mv -f $@-t $@
+         && mv -f $@-t $@ \
+         && ls -l ./$@
 .PHONY: announcement
 CLEANFILES += announcement