Subject: bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it)

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 06:02:42 +0100

Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:

> Maybe the etc/NEWS symlink doesn't even need to be versioned.
> The build process could construct it based on the version number.

That makes sense to me.  When creating source distribution tarballs,
the file could simpy be copied or moved into place in case there are
problems with symlinks on this or that platform (I guess MS-Windows?).

Is there any reason not to do this?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas