Re: what make-dist should include [was Re: Emacs pretest 26.1.91 is out]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:58:49 -0800
> Cc: Emacs Devel <address@hidden>
> 
> On 1/16/19 2:30 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> > I see zero practical advantages to a switch to a "distribute everything"
> > approach (which Emacs has never done, and nor when I check do eg tar,
> > texinfo, coreutils); unless it will drastically simplify make-dist and
> > avoid problems like the one fixed in 021f34b. If it does then I am all
> > for it. :)
> 
> OK, proposed make-dist patch attached. This patch drastically simplifies 
> the list of files in make-dist that needs to be maintained manually, by 
> relying on Git to keep track of files under version control. This should 
> help avoid problems like the one you mentioned.

I think you forgot a few files, like PDF refcards etc., which are
produced by the build, but included in the tarball.