191/376: Drop separate release notes

[Ludovic Court�s]

civodul pushed a commit to tag 1.8
in repository guix.

commit 7a740c9288b55b50d173db8a010611cef51fcc17
Author: Eelco Dolstra <address@hidden>
Date:   Tue Sep 16 14:52:44 2014 +0200

    Drop separate release notes
---
 .gitignore          |    2 --
 doc/manual/local.mk |   28 ----------------------------
 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0a3c979..c8a65ad 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ Makefile.config
 /nix.spec
 /stamp-h1
 /svn-revision
-/NEWS
 /libtool
 
 /corepkgs/config.nix
@@ -32,7 +31,6 @@ Makefile.config
 /doc/manual/*.5
 /doc/manual/*.8
 /doc/manual/version.txt
-/doc/manual/release-notes.html
 
 # /scripts/
 /scripts/nix-profile.sh
diff --git a/doc/manual/local.mk b/doc/manual/local.mk
index f359b3e..223a49b 100644
--- a/doc/manual/local.mk
+++ b/doc/manual/local.mk
@@ -83,31 +83,3 @@ $(d)/manual.pdf: $(d)/manual.xml $(MANUAL_SRCS) 
$(d)/manual.is-valid
        fi
 
 clean-files += $(d)/manual.pdf
-
-
-# Generate the release notes.
-
-NEWS_OPTS = \
- --stringparam generate.toc "article nop" \
- --stringparam section.autolabel.max.depth 0 \
- --stringparam header.rule 0
-
-$(d)/release-notes.html: $(d)/release-notes.xml
-       $(trace-gen) $(XSLTPROC) --xinclude --output $@ $(NEWS_OPTS) \
-         $(docbookxsl)/xhtml/docbook.xsl $<
-
-NEWS: $(d)/release-notes.xml
-       $(trace-gen) $(XSLTPROC) --xinclude doc/manual/quote-literals.xsl $< | \
-         $(XSLTPROC) --output address@hidden $(NEWS_OPTS) \
-         $(docbookxsl)/xhtml/docbook.xsl - && \
-       LANG=en_US.UTF-8 $(w3m) -dump address@hidden > address@hidden && \
-       sed -e 's/●/*/g' -e 's/○/-/g' -e 's/━/-/g' < address@hidden > NEWS && \
-       rm address@hidden address@hidden
-
-dist-files += NEWS $(d)/release-notes.html
-
-clean-files += NEWS $(d)/release-notes.html
-
-all: $(d)/release-notes.html NEWS
-
-$(foreach file, $(d)/release-notes.html, $(eval $(call install-data-in, 
$(file), $(docdir)/manual)))