Use configure.ac to maintain version number
Remove redundant NEWS (ChangeLog) and AUTHORS (THANKS) files
Move hooks to their own directory
Rename README to README.md to format nicely on github
Generate README for tar by removing git specifics from README.md
Automate tagging when -rc or final version set in configure.ac
Improve pre-commit checking
Using a combination of git attributes, ident and export-subst.
- Scripts use Format: to emit tag or commit when exported
or file Id if direct from git
- configure script uses same mechanisms but cannot do a make dist
- Brought bolierplate in line for both scripts
- Can still be installed just by copying firehol/firehol.in
- CVS versions will not work any longer, so now following
http://semver.org/
- Git commit hooks included to enforce version numbering
across the various files, NEWS, ChangeLog, configure.ac and
sbin/firehol.in
- Replace HTML website copy with DocBook manual