[merge] add 'make dist' and related things, and documentation to use them

[Martin Pool]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Martin Albisetti <argentina at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
>  >  It is in NEWS; it's just that because 'M'<'N' it is not at the head of
>  >  the patch.  Should there be more explanation?
>
>  I was thinking about the script addition to the Makefile, as it seems
>  like a rather important addition to the release process.

I added

     * ``make dist`` target to build a release tarball, and also
      ``check-dist-tarball`` and ``dist-upload-escudero``.  (Martin Pool)

>
>  I might be wrong, it was just something I found interesting and didn't
>  see it in NEWS   :)
>
>



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