bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 06:02:42 +0100
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>, 
>       Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>, 20403@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Maybe the etc/NEWS symlink doesn't even need to be versioned.
> > The build process could construct it based on the version number.
> 
> That makes sense to me.  When creating source distribution tarballs,
> the file could simpy be copied or moved into place in case there are
> problems with symlinks on this or that platform (I guess MS-Windows?).

Tarballs with symlinks are problematic, so I'm against having symlinks
in the release tarball.  But we could make NEWS a copy of the
corresponding NEWS.XY when we produce the tarball, if that's what
people prefer.