tests: avoid '$MAKE' redirections, use 'run_make' instead

[platform/upstream/automake.git] / HACKING

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
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--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -111,7 +111,10 @@
 
 * Micro releases should be just bug-fixing releases; no new features
   should be added, and ideally, only trivial bugs, recent regressions,
-  or documentation issues should be addressed by them.
+  or documentation issues should be addressed by them.  On the other
+  hand, it's OK to include testsuite work and even testsuite refactoring
+  in a micro version, since a regression there is not going to annoy or
+  inconvenience Automake users, but only the Automake developers.
 
 * Minor releases can introduce new "safe" features, do non-trivial but
   mostly safe code clean-ups, and even add new runtime warnings (rigorously
@@ -264,8 +267,6 @@
 
 * Use "make check" and "make maintainer-check" liberally.
 
-* Make sure each test file is executable.
-
 * Export the 'keep_testdirs' environment variable to "yes" to keep
   test directories for successful tests also.