announce-gen is lovley, but it is very inflexible if you use a different format for NEWS.
In inetutils, we use something like: | December 27, 2008 | Version 1.6: | | * Fixed FOO in BAR. | | * Added BAZ. | | October 21, 2006 | Version 1.5: | | ... I am not sure what a way one should fix announce-gen to be more flexible, maybe just being able to specify a `start' regexp, and a `end' regexp would be enough. So in the above example, we could use something like: --start-regexp="^Version " --end-regexp="^ $" Or maybe just a switch to skip looking at NEWS, and add a `FIXME: Add noteworthy changes here' where the news entries go. Alas, I don't know enough perl to hack announce-gen.
