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diffutils-3.9 released [stable]

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org>
Cc: 60855 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60855: [bug-diffutils] bug#60855: diffutils-3.9 released [stable]
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:14:27 -0800

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 3:53 PM Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:
>
> > Hi Simon,
> > Thanks for reporting that. Good point, indeed.
> > I've made that change to the tiny script I use to generate that part
> > of the announcement.
> >
> > In case anyone else wants to use it (to be run after you've run "make
> > release"), here it is:
>
> Thank you -- any particular reason this is not integrated into gnulib's
> 'make release' NEWS generator?  I always wondered what generated your
> announcements with the git-related summaries, and wanted something
> similar.

No big reason. Mainly just that no one had said anything, and before today,
it would emit a hard-coded "Jim" and was not shellcheck-clean :-)

I'll add it.

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