coverage: enhance tests in 'missing' script a little

[platform/upstream/automake.git] / NEWS

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@@ -66,6 +66,21 @@ New in 1.13:
     and texi2pdf around without cluttering the build directory, and to
     make it possible to run the "dvi" and "pdf" recipes in parallel.
 
+* Automatic remake rules and 'missing' script:
+
+  - The 'missing' script does not try anymore to update the timestamp
+    of out-of-date files that require a maintainer-specific tool to be
+    remade, in case the user lacks such a tool (or has a too-old version
+    of it).  It just give a useful warning, and in some cases also a tip
+    about how to obtain such a tool.
+
+  - The missing script has thus become useless as a (poor) way to work
+    around the sketched-timestamps issues that can happen for projects
+    that keep generated files committed in their VCS repository.  Such
+    projects are now encouraged to write a custom "fix-timestamps.sh"
+    script to avoid such issues; a simple example is provided in the
+    "CVS and generated files" chapter of the automake manual.
+
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 New in 1.12.2: