maint: once again distribute .tar.gz files

* configure.ac: Reenable distribution of gzip-compressed tarballs,
to help reduce the size of the Guix seed, as discussed at
https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2020-02/msg00042.html and
https://lists.gnu.org/r/sed-devel/2020-01/msg00013.html
* NEWS (Release): Mention this.
Requested by Nicolas Boos
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Jim Meyering 2025-02-02 11:23:56 -08:00
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@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ GNU diffutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
when comparing files in a mutating file system.
[bug present since "the beginning"]
** Release
distribute gzip-compressed tarballs once again
* Noteworthy changes in release 3.10 (2023-05-21) [stable]

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@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/diff.c])
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 dist-xz no-dist-gzip subdir-objects
color-tests parallel-tests])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 dist-xz subdir-objects color-tests parallel-tests])
AM_SILENT_RULES([yes]) # make --enable-silent-rules the default.
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([lib/config.h:lib/config.hin])