New file mkdist.sh, copied from mkadmin/mkdist.sh

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+# Creates a distribution tarball of the kind that Debian packages are
+# made from.
+DEBCHANGELOG=debian/changelog
+
+l=`head -1 $DEBCHANGELOG`
+NAME=`echo $l|sed 's/ .*//g'`
+FULLVERSION=`echo $l|sed 's/.*(//g'|sed 's/).*//g'`
+VERSION=`echo $FULLVERSION|sed 's/-.*//g'`
+
+git archive --format=tar --prefix=$NAME-$VERSION/ HEAD > $NAME-$VERSION.tar
+tar xf $NAME-$VERSION.tar
+rm -r $NAME-$VERSION/debian
+rm -r $NAME-$VERSION/archive
+tar cfz $NAME-$VERSION.tar.gz $NAME-$VERSION
+rm $NAME-$VERSION.tar
+rm -r $NAME-$VERSION