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@@ -121,7 +121,10 @@ * Micro releases should be just bug-fixing releases; no new features should be added, and ideally, only trivial bugs, recent regressions, - or documentation issues should be addressed by them. + or documentation issues should be addressed by them. On the other + hand, it's OK to include testsuite work and even testsuite refactoring + in a micro version, since a regression there is not going to annoy or + inconvenience Automake users, but only the Automake developers. * Minor releases can introduce new "safe" features, do non-trivial but mostly safe code clean-ups, and even add new runtime warnings (rigorously |