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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# vim: set fileencoding=utf-8 :
+#
+# Hello. This is make-release-mail.py from the Telepathy project. It's
+# designed to turn an item from a NEWS file into a mail suitable for sending
+# to <telepathy@lists.freedesktop.org>. I hope that you enjoy your stay.
+
+import sys
+
+def extract_description(package, version, news_path):
+    release_name = []
+    details = []
+
+    with open(news_path) as f:
+        lines = (line for line in f.readlines())
+        for line in lines:
+            # Find the 'telepathy-foo 0.1.2' header
+            if line.startswith("%s %s" % (package, version)):
+                break
+
+        # Skip the ====== line, and the first blank line
+        lines.next()
+        lines.next()
+
+        got_release_name = False
+
+        for line in lines:
+            line = line.rstrip()
+            # If we hit the next version header, we're done
+            if line.startswith(package):
+                break
+            # Else, if we hit a blank line and we're still reading the release
+            # name, we're done with the release name.
+            elif not got_release_name and line == '':
+                got_release_name = True
+            # Otherwise, append this to the relevant list
+            elif not got_release_name:
+                release_name.append(line)
+            else:
+                details.append(line)
+
+        assert got_release_name, (release_name, details)
+
+    # We rstrip details because it picks up a trailing blank line
+    return ('\n'.join(release_name), '\n'.join(details).rstrip())
+
+BASE_URL = 'http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases'
+
+def main(package, version, news_path):
+    release_name, details = extract_description(package, version, news_path)
+
+    print """
+%(release_name)s
+
+tarball: %(base_url)s/%(package)s/%(package)s-%(version)s.tar.gz
+signature: %(base_url)s/%(package)s/%(package)s-%(version)s.tar.gz.asc
+
+%(details)s""".strip().rstrip() % {
+        'base_url': BASE_URL,
+        'package': package,
+        'version': version,
+        'release_name': release_name,
+        'details': details,
+    }
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    try:
+        package, version, news_path = sys.argv[1:]
+
+        main(package, version, news_path)
+    except ValueError, e:
+        sys.stderr.write(
+            'Usage: %s package-name package.version.number path/to/NEWS\n' %
+            sys.argv[0])
+        sys.stderr.flush()
+        sys.exit(1)