sure to add a test case for it, and to reference such test case from
a proper Texinfo comment.
-* Some files in the automake package are not owned by automake. These
- files should never be edited here. These files are
- COPYING (from FSF),
- INSTALL (autoconf-patches@gnu.org),
- config.guess, config.sub (config-patches@gnu.org),
- texinfo.tex (bug-texinfo@gnu.org),
- Most of them are updated before release with `make fetch'.
+* Some files in the automake package are not owned by automake; these
+ files are listed in the $(FETCHFILES) variable in Makefile.am. They
+ should never be edited here. Almost all of them can be updated from
+ respective upstreams with "make fetch" (this should be done especially
+ before releases). The only exception is the 'lib/COPYING' (from FSF),
+ which should be updated by hand whenever the GPL gets updated (which
+ shouldn't happen that often anyway :-)
* Changes other than bug fixes must be mentioned in NEWS. Important
bug fixes should be mentioned in NEWS, too.
WGET_SV_GIT_GL = $(WGET) 'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f='
## Files that we fetch and which we compare against.
-## FIXME should be a lot more here
+## The 'lib/COPYING' file must still be synced by hand.
FETCHFILES = \
INSTALL \
config.guess \