Riece has following releases since this Makefile prepared
(This will close PR pkg/43970).
		Version 5.0.0 2008-05-30
		Version 6.0.0 2009-05-30
		Version 7.0.0 2010-05-29
		Version 7.0.1 2010-10-14  (PR pkg/43970)
		Version 7.0.2 2010-12-10
		Version 7.0.3 2010-12-24
		Version 8.0.0 2011-05-29
		Version 9.0.0 2012-05-29
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* Major changes in 9.0.0

** New command to re-order channels is added (ueno)
   See the doc string of riece-command-reorder-channels.

** Complete multiple channels when joining (ueno)

* Major changes in 8.0.0

** Extend URL regexp used in riece-url (ueno)

** Use lexical binding everywhere (ueno)

** Update doc/ptexinfmt.el (kaoru)

* Major changes in 7.0.3

** Fix freeze behavior when the cursor is on a channel buffer (ueno)
   riece-shrink-buffer had a bug which moves the cursor to the top or
   bottom of buffer even when the buffer is frozen.

** Fix out-of-tree build (kaoru, ueno)
   There were some code not passing srcdir correctly.

** Remove old-style backquotes for Emacs 24 (ueno)

* Major changes in 7.0.2

** Fix bug of reading IRC logs (ueno)
   If coding-system was not specified when writing log to file, Riece
   added extra ".nil" to the filename.  That causes erronous behavior
   on reading the logs back.

** Fix control sequence parsing (ueno)

* Major changes in 7.0.1

** Fix compilation error on Emacs 24. (ueno)
   Emacs 24 does not have make-local-hook.

** Suppress byte-compile warnings. (kaoru)
   Suppress "`save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer'".

** Support "make distcheck". (ueno)

* Major changes in 7.0.0

** Mailing list address changed to riece-discuss@nongnu.org.

** Fix build for XEmacs 21.5. (ueno)

** Fix coloring riece-channel-list-indicator on mode-line. (ueno)

* Major changes in 6.1.0

** Revert to use setq instead of Custom for saved settings. (ueno)

** Add-on management commands can now be usable from the Command buffer. (kaoru)

* Major changes in 6.0.0

** New add-on riece-desktop-notify. (bg66)

** Fix Custom-based setting mechanism.
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Update binutils to 2.23.2, riece to 9.0.0.
mef@ was asked to take over MAINTAINER-ship. Thank you.
Re-add EXTRACT_SUFX, needed in this case (plus a comment why it's needed).
dd_rescue (1.33) on [wip]