Pre-release improvements

Clean up NEWS.md.in, clean up maint/release.in.

Author: mike-burns

NEWS.md.in

@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ rcm (@PACKAGE_VERSION@) unstable; urgency=low
   * BUGFIX: all symlinks in mkrc input are rejected (Mat M).
   * BUGFIX: messages for -C being a copy so can't update (Mat M).
   * BUGFIX: expect at least one existing dotfiles directory (Mat M).
-  * Feature: Move from ruby to python to handle mustache templating (Mat M).
+  * BUGFIX: fix program name in rcdn -V (Ivan Tkachenko)
+  * Feature: mkrc hooks via -k/-K (Patrick Brisbin)
   * Feature: All symlinks in input are rejected (Mat M).
-  * Packaging improvements (Stephen Groat, Martin Frost, Link Dupont).
+  * Packaging improvements (Stephen Groat, Martin Frost, Link Dupont,
+      Eric Collins, Mat M, Darcy Parker).
 
  -- Mike Burns <mburns@thoughtbot.com>  Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:12:00 -0500
 

maint/release.in

@@ -9,15 +9,6 @@ srcdir='@srcdir@'
 abs_top_builddir='@abs_top_builddir@'
 dist_man_MANS='lsrc.1 mkrc.1 rcdn.1 rcup.1 rcrc.5 rcm.7'
 
-edit_package() {
-  sed \
-    -e "s|@PACKAGE[@]|$PACKAGE|g" \
-    -e "s|@PACKAGE_VERSION[@]|$PACKAGE_VERSION|g" \
-    -e "s|@DIST_ARCHIVES[@]|$DIST_ARCHIVES|g" \
-    -e "s|@DIST_SHA[@]|$DIST_SHA|g" \
-    "$1"
-}
-
 # Tarball
 release_build_tarball() {
   ([ -d gh-pages ] || git clone --branch gh-pages . gh-pages) && \
@@ -59,6 +50,19 @@ release_clean_arch() {
   rm -rf $DIST_ARCHIVES
 }
 
+generate_dist_sha() {
+  export DIST_SHA=$(openssl sha256 $srcdir/$DIST_ARCHIVES | cut -d' ' -f2)
+}
+
+edit_package() {
+  sed \
+    -e "s|@PACKAGE[@]|$PACKAGE|g" \
+    -e "s|@PACKAGE_VERSION[@]|$PACKAGE_VERSION|g" \
+    -e "s|@DIST_ARCHIVES[@]|$DIST_ARCHIVES|g" \
+    -e "s|@DIST_SHA[@]|$DIST_SHA|g" \
+    "$1"
+}
+
 # Deb
 release_build_deb() {
   mkdir deb-build && \
@@ -108,10 +112,6 @@ release_clean_tag() {
   :
 }
 
-generate_dist_sha() {
-  export DIST_SHA=$(openssl sha256 $srcdir/$DIST_ARCHIVES | cut -d' ' -f2)
-}
-
 # manpages as HTML
 release_build_man_html() {
   ([ -d gh-pages ] || git clone --branch gh-pages . gh-pages) && \
@@ -140,6 +140,16 @@ if [ $# -lt 3 ]; then
   exit 64
 fi
 
+if ! command -v git >/dev/null; then
+  echo >&2 "release: missing dependency: git"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+if ! command -v mandoc >/dev/null; then
+  echo >&2 "release: missing dependency: git"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
 verb="$1"
 noun="$2"
 DIST_ARCHIVES="$3"