Hi Nikolaos - thanks for the submission and the reversion :). I find the existing text (and the companion suffix7.sh test) quite confusing, but it does seem to be written as intended. So, closing.
Regarding the question you sent me separately, about still looking for maintainers: most definitely. My time available for Automake is quite limited. The link I put on https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/ to https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2021-03/msg00018.html is still valid, despite being four years old. Thanks, Karl