* 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
* 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.