Require a "Version N.M" line at the top of the ChangeLog

file only when making the actual release, not when running
"make distcheck".

(maintainer-distcheck): Don't depend on
changelog-check.
(alpha beta major): Depend on it here, instead.

diff --git a/Makefile.maint b/Makefile.maint
index f1fece4..6d28393 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.maint
+++ b/Makefile.maint
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ cvs-diff-check:
 
 cvs-check: cvs-diff-check cvs-tag-check
 
-maintainer-distcheck: changelog-check
+maintainer-distcheck:
        $(MAKE) distcheck
        $(MAKE) my-distcheck
 
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ $(xd-delta): $(release_archive_dir)/$(prev-tgz) $(distdir).tar.gz
        xdelta delta -9 $^ $@ || :
 
 .PHONY: alpha beta major
-alpha beta major: news-date-check $(local-check)
+alpha beta major: news-date-check changelog-check $(local-check)
        test $@ = major                                         \
          && { echo $(VERSION) | grep -E '^[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)+$$' \
               || { echo "invalid version string: $(VERSION)" 1>&2; exit 1; }}\