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@@ -36,6 +36,23 @@ The new keyword `check-script' defines a shell script to verify the submitted tarball. See the documentation, section 4.12 "Distribution Verification", for details. +* New meta-variables + + email:admin Full email address of the systems administrator. + email:owner Full email address of the project administrator. + email:user Full email address of the user who did the upload. + +Note: `email:user' is not to be confused with `user:email'. The latter +is expanded to email address only, while the former yields full email +address, i.e. an address with a personal part, e.g.: + + "Ty Coon" <ty@coon.org> + +* New meta-construct + +The special construct $-, when used in message texts, causes removal +of the character following it. Its intended use is primarily to +remove the following newline character (like dnl in m4). Version 2.0, 2009-12-22 |