Also, I just updated to the last Automake 1.8 beta, and the new implementation of aclocal saved over 300k on my tarball, so not everything's wrong in the Autotools after all... :-) (aclocal now includes m4 files that are in the distribution directory using m4_include, and not literally in aclocal.m4).
FOAF updates: Trust rankings are now exported, making the data available to other users and websites. An external FOAF URI has been added, allowing users to link to an additional FOAF file.
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