Karl just pointed out to me that, as per: http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Announcements.html
non-stable release announcements should only go to info-gnu in exceptional circumstances. Therefore, the hardwired To: address in maint.mk is wrong, and should be set differently for alpha, beta & stable targets. I had a look through maint.mk, and it seems that the right way to implement this is to pass RELEASE_TYPE down to the announcement target, and then have To: default to info-gnu for stable releases, and $(PACKAGE_BUGREPORT) otherwise, which in turn means that announcement_Cc_ needs to add $(PACKAGE_BUGREPORT) only for stable releases. Hence, the conditional assignments of announcement_Cc_ and announcement_mail_headers_ need to be moved into the announcement target, which seems harmless as those variables are not used elsewhere in maint.mk. In other words, I'm happy to provide a patch once the management has approved the lines along which I'm writing it! -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
