update configure.ac and ChangeLog/NEWS/release notes for new version

[skierpage]

I filed bug #33 despite it sounding like closed bugs #13 and #14 because Fedora has the "latest" version 1.2.0... but after puzzling over this project it seems it's been at version 1.2.0 for 11 years. This makes it impossible to figure out what git commit of xsel I'm running without excavating the build history of my distribution's package (Fedora xsel-1.2.0-24.fc30.src.rpm).

Related problems:

• ChangeLog has nothing in it since release 1.0.0 also in 2008.
• NEWS is 0 length
• release_notes is unchanged since 1.2.0 in 2008 despite over 50 commits.

It would be great if these could be cleaned up before the next release (issue #26). I think to update the version you change the line

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(xsel, 1.2.0)

in configure.ac, but I could be wrong since the install instructions are broken (issue #23).

[kfish]

Thanks, can you provide patches for these? Ideally I'd like to move this project to a new maintenance team as I clearly don't have enough time to devote to it, so If you're keen let's set that up.

[skierpage]

Thanks, can you provide patches for these? Ideally I'd like to move this project to a new maintenance team as I clearly don't have enough time to devote to it, so If you're keen let's set that up.

I might be able to give it a go, but I'm no expert on packaging conventions e.g. which of these three files is preferred. BTW I have literally used this command about 420,000 times so thanks for your work :heart: :+1: :100:

Fedora has the "latest" version 1.2.0...

Someone in #fedora IRC pointed me at https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=16690058 which I think indicates Fedora's xsel-1.2.0-24.fc30.src.rpm package is built from the March 2008 xsel 1.2.0 source plus 6 patches.