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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

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