From c267424d7b1bc606a0275b2233962b3487f10093 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] automatically generate template for test release announcement

---
 Makefile.maint | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Makefile.maint b/Makefile.maint
index 134e8e34d1..10101eaf98 100644
--- a/Makefile.maint
+++ b/Makefile.maint
@@ -42,3 +42,27 @@ my-distcheck: dist
 	@echo "========================"; \
 	echo "$(distdir).tar.gz is ready for distribution"; \
 	echo "========================"
+
+THIS_VERSION_REGEXP := $(shell echo $(VERSION)|sed 's/\./\\./g')
+# FIXME: this works only for test releases.
+PREV_VERSION := $(shell echo $(VERSION)|tr a-z Xa-y)
+PREV_VERSION_REGEXP := $(shell echo $(PREV_VERSION)|sed 's/\./\\./g')
+v = Version
+announcement: NEWS ChangeLog $(distdir).tar.gz
+	@( \
+	  echo Subject: $(distdir) released; \
+	  echo; \
+	  echo FIXME: put comments here; \
+	  echo; \
+	  echo "  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/$(distdir).tar.gz"; \
+	  echo; \
+	  md5sum $(distdir).tar.gz; \
+	  echo; \
+	  echo NEWS:; \
+	  sed -n "/$(THIS_VERSION_REGEXP)/,/$(PREV_VERSION_REGEXP)/p" NEWS \
+	    | grep -v '^\['; \
+	  echo; \
+	  echo ChangeLog entries:; \
+	  sed -n "/$v $(THIS_VERSION_REGEXP)/,/$v $(PREV_VERSION_REGEXP)/p" \
+	    ChangeLog | grep -v '\* $v'; \
+	)
-- 
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