Re: [PATCH] release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically

[Jim Meyering]

Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On Saturday 10 December 2011, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> > * Makefile.am (git-dist): The developer might have already tested
>>
>> "might"  Hah.
>>
> "The developers shall test extensively before finally creating
> the release tarball" would sound better? :-)

I wasn't advocating a change (it's only the ChangeLog after all).
I was merely acknowledging the humor in what you wrote.
Anyone who is making a release should have run "make distcheck"
*many* times, definitely including at least one run after any
final change.  Saying that it "might have been done" sounded
tongue-in-cheek.

In general I'm for that one extra "make distcheck" run, as a
safety net, as long as it doesn't take too long, but automake's
test suite takes long enough that one doesn't easily run it an
extra, usually-unnecessary time.