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Not distributing README-release automatically.


From: Mathieu Lirzin
Subject: Not distributing README-release automatically.
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2017 17:12:27 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux)

Hello,

I have been using 'readme-release' module and was surprised to discover
that the "README-release" file was automatically distributed without any
mention in the "module/readme-release" file.

After some digging I have discovered that all files from the "top"
directory are automatically added to EXTRA_DIST.  Here is a snippet from
bootstrap that could be removed:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
      if test -n "$top_files"; then
        sed_prepend_topdir='s,^,$(top_srcdir)/,'
        echo "EXTRA_DIST += "`echo "$top_files" | sed -e "$sed_prepend_topdir"`
        echo
      fi
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

IMO we should move the responsability of distributing "top/*" files to
the module definition instead, and not distributing "README-release"
automatically (like what is done in Coreutils).

What do people think?

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin
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