6 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/admin/admin.el b/admin/admin.el
index 030bd54b521..d3a477fde80 100644
--- a/admin/admin.el
+++ b/admin/admin.el
@@ -138,10 +138,10 @@ Root must be the root of an Emacs source tree."
                               (if (eq 2 (length newversion)) 0 1))))
          (majorbump (and oldversion (not (equal oldmajor newmajor))))
          (minorbump (and oldversion (not majorbump)
-                         (or (not (equal (cadr oldversion)
-                                         (cadr newversion)))
-                             (and (equal (cadr oldversion) (cadr newversion))
-                                  (equal (nth 2 newversion) 50)))))
+                         (or (not (equal (cadr oldversion) (cadr newversion)))
+                             ;; Eg 26.2 -> 26.2.50.
+                             (and (> (length newversion)
+                                     (length oldversion))))))
          (newsfile (expand-file-name "etc/NEWS" root))
          (oldnewsfile (expand-file-name (format "etc/NEWS.%s" oldmajor) root)))
     (unless (> (length newversion) 2)   ; pretest or release candidate?
diff --git a/admin/authors.el b/admin/authors.el
index a3f8bdde841..8329f3f581c 100644
--- a/admin/authors.el
+++ b/admin/authors.el
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
-
 ;;; authors.el --- utility for maintaining Emacs's AUTHORS file
 
 ;; Copyright (C) 2000-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 ;; Author: Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
-;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org
 ;; Keywords: maint
 ;; Package: emacs
 
diff --git a/admin/find-gc.el b/admin/find-gc.el
index bf93c4eedf4..9b925565dfb 100644
--- a/admin/find-gc.el
+++ b/admin/find-gc.el
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 ;; Copyright (C) 1992, 2001-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
-;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org
-
 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
 
 ;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
diff --git a/admin/last-chance.el b/admin/last-chance.el
index 5f993be18e2..ceed1c7cfa3 100644
--- a/admin/last-chance.el
+++ b/admin/last-chance.el
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 ;; Copyright (C) 2016-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 ;; Author: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org>
-;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org
 ;; Keywords: maint
 ;; Package: emacs
 
diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt
index 47b60173f8e..43992a0bb2b 100644
--- a/admin/make-tarball.txt
+++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ General steps (for each step, check for possible errors):
     results against the new tar contents.
 
 7.   tar -xf emacs-NEW.tar; cd emacs-NEW
-     ./configure --prefix=/tmp/emacs && make && make install
+     ./configure --prefix=/tmp/emacs && make check && make install
     Use 'script' or M-x compile to save the compilation log in
     compile-NEW.log and compare it against an old one.  The easiest way
     to do that is to visit the old log in Emacs, change the version
diff --git a/admin/update-copyright b/admin/update-copyright
index 44cb84d8cc9..9f360904ce6 100755
--- a/admin/update-copyright
+++ b/admin/update-copyright
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ repo_files=$(git ls-files) &&
 # Do not update the copyright of files that have one or more of the
 # following problems:
 # . They are license files, maintained by the FSF, with their own dates.
+# . They are GMP files, maintained by the GMP project, with their own dates.
 # . Their format cannot withstand changing the contents of copyright strings.
 
 updatable_files=$(find $repo_files \
@@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ updatable_files=$(find $repo_files \
   ! -name hand.cur \
   ! -name key.pub \
   ! -name key.sec \
+  ! -name 'mini-gmp.[ch]' \
   -print) &&
 
 build-aux/update-copyright $updatable_files