--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2009-03-02  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+	announce-gen: new option: --no-print-checksums
+	* build-aux/announce-gen (usage): Describe it.
+	(print_checksums): Print a newline here, not in the [*] footnote.
+	(main): Honor it.
+
 2009-03-01  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
 	Use socklen_t in the native Windows replacements prototypes.

--- a/build-aux/announce-gen
+++ b/build-aux/announce-gen
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
 # Generate a release announcement message.
 
-my $VERSION = '2008-12-02 16:28'; # UTC
+my $VERSION = '2009-03-02 07:45'; # UTC
 # The definition above must lie within the first 8 lines in order
 # for the Emacs time-stamp write hook (at end) to update it.
 # If you change this file with Emacs, please let the write hook
 # do its job.  Otherwise, update this string manually.
 
-# Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2002-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@
                                 VERSION is the result of running git describe
                                 in the gnulib source directory.
                                 required if gnulib is in TOOL_LIST.
+   --no-print-checksums         do not emit MD5 or SHA1 checksums
 
    --help             display this help and exit
    --version          output version information and exit
@@ -185,8 +186,7 @@
 	  print "$dig  $f\n";
 	}
     }
-
-
+  print "\n";
 }
 
 =item C<print_news_deltas ($news_file, $prev_version, $curr_version)
@@ -377,6 +377,7 @@
   my @news_file;
   my $bootstrap_tools;
   my $gnulib_version;
+  my $print_checksums_p = 1;
 
   GetOptions
     (
@@ -389,6 +390,7 @@
      'news=s'             => \@news_file,
      'bootstrap-tools=s'  => \$bootstrap_tools,
      'gnulib-version=s'   => \$gnulib_version,
+     'print-checksums!'   => \$print_checksums_p,
 
      help => sub { usage 0 },
      version => sub { print "$ME version $VERSION\n"; exit },
@@ -464,10 +466,10 @@
   print_locations ("GPG detached signatures[*]", @url_dir_list, %size,
 		   @sig_files);
 
-  print_checksums (@sizable);
+  $print_checksums_p
+    and print_checksums (@sizable);
 
   print <<EOF;
-
 [*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that
 the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact.  First,
 be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.