From dd162a3f2264940e3e329d0bfb195f56d00ed08f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 14:35:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] * admin/admin.el (set-version): Check for empty NEWS
 sections.

---
 admin/admin.el | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/admin/admin.el b/admin/admin.el
index d3a477fde80..5968e32b05e 100644
--- a/admin/admin.el
+++ b/admin/admin.el
@@ -147,6 +147,10 @@ Root must be the root of an Emacs source tree."
     (unless (> (length newversion) 2)   ; pretest or release candidate?
       (with-temp-buffer
         (insert-file-contents newsfile)
+        (when (re-search-forward "^\\* [^\n]*\n+" nil t)
+          (display-warning 'admin
+                           "NEWS file contains empty sections - remove them?"))
+        (goto-char (point-min))
         (if (re-search-forward "^\\(\\+\\+\\+ *\\|--- *\\)$" nil t)
             (display-warning 'admin
                              "NEWS file still contains temporary markup.
-- 
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