Akim Demaille wrote:
> I have been trying to follow README-release as a guide
> for releasing Bison, unfortunately step after step I
> discovered that I needed modules that were not requested
> by Bison.  It seems sane that if you want README-alpha,
> you also want the tools it promotes.

Good idea.  This has burned even me ;-)
Please commit.

Upon our next sync from gnulib, we should all filter
these now-redundant module names from our lists in bootstrap.conf ;-)

Here's a quick and dirty one-liner to automate the removal:

  perl -ni -e \
    '/do-release-commit-and-tag|gnupload|gnu-web-doc-update/ or print' \
    bootstrap.conf

Thanks!

> From bf9db3067cd2ff55bff97933b3349f46b140b517 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Akim Demaille <a...@lrde.epita.fr>
> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 11:05:45 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] readme-release: require the promoted modules.
>
> * modules/readme-release (Depends-on): Add
> do-release-commit-and-tag, gnupload, and gnu-web-doc-update, used
> in this text.
> ---
>  ChangeLog              |    7 +++++++
>  modules/readme-release |    3 +++
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
> index f7fa9e9..08285b8 100644
> --- a/ChangeLog
> +++ b/ChangeLog
> @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
> +2012-06-05  Akim Demaille  <a...@lrde.epita.fr>
> +
> +     readme-release: require the promoted modules.
> +     * modules/readme-release (Depends-on): Add
> +     do-release-commit-and-tag, gnupload, and gnu-web-doc-update, used
> +     in this text.
> +
>  2012-05-21  Paolo Bonzini  <bonz...@gnu.org>
>           Bruno Haible  <br...@clisp.org>
>
> diff --git a/modules/readme-release b/modules/readme-release
> index a2128bf..8b240d9 100644
> --- a/modules/readme-release
> +++ b/modules/readme-release
> @@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ Files:
>  top/README-release
>
>  Depends-on:
> +do-release-commit-and-tag
> +gnupload
> +gnu-web-doc-update
>
>  configure.ac:

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