documentation bug about AM_MAINTAINER_MODE?

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

hey good GNU folks--

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the autotools suite, so this may
very well not be a bug.  Feel free to tell me if if i'm mixed up.

In the documentation for AM_MAINTAINER_MODE [0], it states:

> People use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE either because they do want their users
> (or themselves) annoyed by timestamps lossage (see CVS), or because they
> simply can't stand the rebuild rules and prefer running maintainer tools
> explicitly. 

However, from my (limited) understanding, it seems like maintainer-mode
would *avoid* CVS-generated timestamp annoyances for these files.

So shouldn't the text read "...because they do *not* want their users
(or themselves) annoyed..."?

Or have i misunderstood the point entirely?

        --dkg


[0]
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html.gz#maintainer_002dmode

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