>> I vote for removing this file from the list of mandatory files.
>
> It's not mandatory. It only gets included when the file is present
> in your development workspace (presumably by some mistake?) when you
> run automake.
Hmm. I can no longer repeat the problem. Sorry for the noise.
> Removing anything from this list will just break any projects that
> depend on the current behaviour when they switch to a new version of
> Automake, probably in subtle and hard-to-notice ways.
I imagined an option to specify files that are not distributed by
default.
Werner
