arename.in | 2 1 + 1 - 0 !
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

 typo

VERSION | 1 1 + 0 - 0 !
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

 add the version file
 This is in the released tarball but not in the tag tarball from github used
 for the 4.0 upload.
 Can be safely removed with the next release (sic!).

bin/gendoc.sh | 4 2 + 2 - 0 !
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

 show pod2man errors if there are any
 Helps debugging build failures.

bin/genperlscripts.sh | 2 1 + 1 - 0 !
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

 fix ftbfs if building from a git checkout with tags with slashes
 If built from a checkout of the Debian package, there are commonly
 tags like debian/4.0-2, i.e. tags which include a slash. This fails
 due to sed using slashes as delimiter for the tag-based version
 replacement, too.

Makefile | 36 18 + 18 - 0 !
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

 don't ignore failures by scripts which are part of the build process
 The build should immediately abort if any of these fail and not only
 because a later step stumbles upon the failure's result of a previous
 step.

ARename.pm.in | 2 1 + 1 - 0 !
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

 fix perl warning "possible precedence issue with control flow operator"
 It causes as-installed testing to fail.