release directory isn't properly overwritten by "make release"

[rogpeppe]

As remarked on by @aykevl here, when the release directory is messed up, one needs to run make clean to make it OK again. This is a problem waiting for newcomers to trip over - it would be nice if make release could produce a valid release directory regardless of the current contents of that directory.

[deadprogram]

@aykevl @rogpeppe is this still a problem or can we close this issue now?

[aykevl]

This has not been fixed. And I'm not sure what the best fix for it would be - with the way make works you can't easily remove everything before a command.

Better docs might be one way to improve the situation.