Release tarballs are full of garbage

Greetings,

It would give me a better feeling if the release tarballs contained an 
up to date build system and less garbage.  Here is a selection from 
rekall 2.2.3:

admin.kde3/config.guess  -- too old, does not recognize new systems
admin.kde3/config.sub  -- too old, does not recognize new systems
admin.kde3/cvs.sh  -- requires automake 1.5, which is ancient
admin.kde3/ltmain.sh  -- libtool 1.4e, doesn't work on new systems

The whole admin.kde3/ tree should probably be updated regularly.

Similar issues exist in admin.qt/; many files are not even executable.  
The whole thing is probably broken.

Every directory contains suspicious leftover files named 
Makefile.am.tmp.

autom4te-2.53.cache/ and autom4te.cache/ are useless.  Delete them.

BUILD is an empty file.  Delete it.

ChangeLog is clearly not maintained.  Delete it.

The following files belong to a local build and should be deleted before 
making a release.  Releases ought to be build using "make dist" or 
better even "make distcheck" to make sure everything is clean.

build.log
config.h
config.log
config.status
libtool

The following files in the top-level directory are useless because the 
corresponding files in admin/ are used.  The files in the top-level 
directory should be deleted.

config.guess
config.sub
install-sh
ltconfig
ltmain.sh
missing
mkinstalldirs
stamp-h
stamp-h1

The file "dlog" is garbage.

Also, there is a file called rekall-2.2.3.tar.gz *in* the package.

The po/ directory is full of files from a local build that should not be 
in a distribution.

The po/Makefile fails to clean po/de.gmo po/it.gmo.  They should be 
added to CLEANFILES or something.

Also, the distclean target fails to remove about half of the Makefiles 
in the tree.  That's because config.status creates a makefile there, 
but the makefiles are not set up to recurse there to clean up.  The 
directories should be added to DISTSUBDIRS, I believe, to make that 
work.

Using "make dist" to build the distribution tarball really helps with 
most of these issues.

In any case, the 2.2.3 release tarball is really broken.  I hope you 
find the time to build a better one soon.  Thanks.