. ChangeLog is removed (automatically generated from CVS logs when building the tarball)

. add CHANGES to summarize changes.

CHANGES

+This file is a brief description of changes in this new release of ARC.
+Details can be found in the ChangeLog file.
+
+arc 1.2:
+    . install documentation into standard location
+    . add a short README, NEWS and CHANGES files 
+    . add pkg-config support