>> I vote for removing this file from the list of mandatory files. > > It's not mandatory. It only gets included when the file is present > in your development workspace (presumably by some mistake?) when you > run automake.
Hmm. I can no longer repeat the problem. Sorry for the noise. > Removing anything from this list will just break any projects that > depend on the current behaviour when they switch to a new version of > Automake, probably in subtle and hard-to-notice ways. I imagined an option to specify files that are not distributed by default. Werner