Add a NEWS file

Add a NEWS file containing a summary of the most important
user-visible changes in each version of quilt. The goal is to
replace quilt.changes, which was partly incomplete and partly
redundant with the git log, by something useful for packagers and
users.

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+Version 0.61 (Sun Dec 08 2013)
+  - Almost two years of fixes and minor improvements
+  - Fix support for ./configure --with-xargs
+  - Parameter quoting fixes to many commands
+  - Various fixes to the pop, push, refresh and patches commands
+  - Translation fixes
+  - setup: Many fixes and improvements
+  - remove-trailing-ws: Several fixes and improvements
+  - remove-trailing-ws: Add a dedicated test case
+  - quilt.el: Many fixes and improvements (emacs integration)
+
+Version 0.60 (Wed Feb 29 2012)
+  - BSD compatibility improvements
+  - grep: Support file names which include spaces
+  - import: Fix import of relative patches
+  - mail: Several fixes
+  - setup: Support directory and archive names which include spaces
+  - backup-files: rewritten from C to bash
+  - backup-files: Add a dedicated test case
+
+Version 0.51 (Sat Jan 28 2012)
+  - Fix support for ./configure --docdir
+  - Various $TMPDIR fixes
+  - mail: Fix delivery address checking
+  - mail: CC people in more common patch headers
+  - push: Fix bash completion
+  - inspect: Complain if wrapper script can't be executed
+
+Version 0.50 (Mon Dec 5 2011)
+  - 34 months of fixes and improvements, too many to list them all
+  - Fix detection of the patch version
+  - Avoid error messages when building due to missing git-desc file
+  - Add support for lzma and xz compression formats
+  - import: Fix confusing French translation
+  - mail: Stop using =~ for older versions of bash
+  - mail: Fix a temporary directory leak
+  - revert: Stop using cp -l
+  - revert: Add bash completion support
+  - setup: Add --fuzz parameter
+  - setup: Add support for reverse patches
+  - inspect: Fix shell syntax errors
+  - Fix error in test case create-delete
+
+Version 0.48 (Thu Jan 29 2009)
+  - fold: Fix bash completion
+  - mail: Don't use GNU awk extensions
+  - mail: Check for formail
+  - setup: Fix for rpm 4.6
+  - Fix error in test case import
+
+Version 0.47 (Thu Aug 21 2008)
+  - Change summary not available
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+Version 0.46 (Thu Oct 19 2006)
+  - Change summary not available
+
+Version 0.45 (Mon Apr 24 2006)
+  - Change summary not available
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+Version 0.44 (Tue Feb 14 2006)
+  - Change summary not available
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+Version 0.43 (Wed Feb 01 2006)
+  - Change summary not available
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+Version 0.42 (Tue Jul 26 2005)
+  - Change summary not available
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+Version 0.40 (Fri Apr 29 2005)
+  - Change summary not available
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+Version 0.39 (Thu Feb 10 2005)
+  - Change summary not available
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+Version 0.37 (Sun Oct 17 2004)
+  - Change summary not available
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+Version 0.36 (Wed Sep 22 2004)
+  - Change summary not available
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+Version 0.35 (Thu Jul 15 2004)
+  - Change summary not available
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+Version 0.34 (Thu Jun 10 2004)
+  - Change summary not available
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+Version 0.33 (Sun Jun 06 2004)
+  - Change summary not available
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+Version 0.32 (Sat Mar 13 2004)
+  - Change summary not available
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+Version 0.30 (Wed Jan 28 2004)
+  - Change summary not available
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+Version 0.29 (Wed Nov 12 2003)
+  - Change summary not available
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+Version 0.28 (Fri Oct 31 2003)
+  - Change summary not available
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+Version 0.27 (Tue Oct 28 2003)
+  - Change summary not available
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+Version 0.26 (Tue Oct 21 2003)
+  - Change summary not available