Currently this is checked only when distcheck-release is called.
Check it in check-news instead, for all versions before the "current"
one (as defined by configure.ac)

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <ultrotter@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michele Tartara <mtartara@google.com>

Before:
$ ./autotools/check-news < ./NEWS
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./autotools/check-news", line 150, in <module>
    main()
  File "./autotools/check-news", line 120, in main
    parsed_ts = time.mktime(time.strptime(m.group("date"), "%d %b %Y"))
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

After:
$ ./autotools/check-news < ./NEWS
Line 8: Invalid release line

This happened because the error function just updates an error log,
rather than bailing out immediately.

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <ultrotter@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michele Tartara <mtartara@google.com>

Commit b6ad806f contained a date a month in the future. With this patch
all release dates in NEWS may at most be three days into the future
(assuming the build machine's clock is correct).

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>

Allow all errors to be displayed, instead of aborting at the first
one, and don't show stacktraces anymore.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>
Reviewed-by: René Nussbaumer <rn@google.com>

- Always two empty lines before a version.
- Standardize how version names should be called.

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <ultrotter@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@google.com>

… not the global line number.

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: René Nussbaumer <rn@google.com>

This will detect human errors when setting a release date in NEWS.

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>