bug#22845: FYI: release soon

2016-02-29 Thread Jim Meyering
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> I'll push this in the next day or so, so any improvements people >> can suggest in the mean time would be most welcome. > > > Thanks for doing all that. > > In NEWS, there should be one "New features" section, not two

bug#22845: FYI: release soon

2016-02-28 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering wrote: I'll push this in the next day or so, so any improvements people can suggest in the mean time would be most welcome. Thanks for doing all that. In NEWS, there should be one "New features" section, not two. I had difficulty following the new documentation. Perhaps it's beca

bug#22845: FYI: release soon

2016-02-28 Thread Jim Meyering
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > I want to make a release soon. > The preceding release (gzip-1.6) was 2.5 years ago. > > Here's a small admin change I've just pushed. > I suspect I'm the only one who noticed, because it > is triggered only via "make distcheck" when also > us

bug#22845: FYI: release soon

2016-02-28 Thread Jim Meyering
I want to make a release soon. The preceding release (gzip-1.6) was 2.5 years ago. Here's a small admin change I've just pushed. I suspect I'm the only one who noticed, because it is triggered only via "make distcheck" when also using automake built from automake.git's master branch. From 9860eb78