[PATCH] {master} docs: move chapter on automake history out of main manual

[Stefano Lattarini]

The chapter on Automake history, while certainly interesting and
even fascinating, does not truly pertain to a reference manual,
so move it out from there and into its own dedicated file.  This
change is made more advisable and pressing by the fact that such
and "Automake history" chapter hasn't been updated since the 1.9.6
release, so it has been becoming less faithful and useful since
then.

I will push this to master in 48 hours if there is no objection.
The complete patch, which is mostly code movement, is attached as
an xz-compressed file.

-*-*-*-

* doc/history.texi: New, manual on the history of the automake
package; extracted from ...
* doc/automake.texi: ... this file, with related adjustments.
* doc/Makefile.am (info_TEXINFOS): Add 'history.texi'.
(history_TEXINFOS): New, list included file 'fdl.texi'.
* Makefile.am (release-stats): Remove as obsolete.
* HACKING (Release Procedure): Don't advise anymore to run the
"release-stats" target and to update the manual with its output.
* NEWS: Update.
* .gitignore: Likewise.
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 .gitignore                |   44 +-
 HACKING                   |    3 -
 Makefile.am               |   31 --
 NEWS                      |    3 +
 doc/Makefile.am           |    3 +-
 doc/automake-history.texi | 1216 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 doc/automake.texi         | 1166 +------------------------------------------
 7 files changed, 1251 insertions(+), 1215 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 doc/automake-history.texi

0001-docs-move-chapter-on-automake-history-out-of-main-ma.patch.xz
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