From 01a27b90546197c43da4b51b6eedabd7d9c349ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:16:27 +0100
Subject: maint: add a NEWS-checking syntax-check rule

* cfg.mk (sc_NEWS_two_empty_lines): New syntax-check rule.
---
 cfg.mk | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

(limited to 'cfg.mk')

diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 7651ab26f..8b3670c93 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -164,6 +164,13 @@ sc_man_file_correlation:
 	@$(MAKE) -s -C src all_programs
 	@$(MAKE) -s -C man $@
 
+# Ensure that the end of each release's section is marked by two empty lines.
+sc_NEWS_two_empty_lines:
+	@sed -n 4,/Noteworthy/p $(srcdir)/NEWS				\
+	    | perl -n0e '/(^|\n)\n\n\* Noteworthy/ or exit 1'		\
+	  || { echo '$(ME): use two empty lines to separate NEWS sections' \
+		 1>&2; exit 1; } || :;					\
+
 # Perl-based tests used to exec perl from a #!/bin/sh script.
 # Now they all start with #!/usr/bin/perl and the portability
 # infrastructure is in tests/Makefile.am.  Make sure no old-style
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