# HG changeset patch
# User Kai T. Ohlhus <k.ohlhus@gmail.com>
# Date 1638945557 -32400
# Node ID 961800b4e41a943807cfc16459e1f6c0a57de6dd
# Parent  df7feab999995a09685412c30d9cbf378881b88d# Parent  4d15a0540ac0a9f1c9fc17055ac628bf3842e92e
maint: Merge stable to default.

diff -r df7feab99999 -r 961800b4e41a bootstrap.conf
--- a/bootstrap.conf	Wed Dec 08 14:55:53 2021 +0900
+++ b/bootstrap.conf	Wed Dec 08 15:39:17 2021 +0900
@@ -217,9 +217,10 @@
   ## Check for files that automake --gnu would normally look for, except
   ## AUTHORS, which we autogenerate from the documentation files along
   ## with building the rest of Octave, and INSTALL, which is linked from
-  ## gnulib/doc/INSTALL by the bootstrap script.
+  ## gnulib/doc/INSTALL by the bootstrap script.  NEWS is autogenerated
+  ## from etc/NEWS.x.
 
-  for f in NEWS README COPYING CITATION; do
+  for f in README COPYING CITATION; do
     if ! test -f $f; then
       echo "required file $f is missing" 2>&1
       exit 1