This would be great to add, and would lay the groundwork to automate this release process even further, because it would put the PR with the package, which would be a great addition to most packages released. Most of the time the NEWS is a brief overview of the changelog, and the PR is the more formal announcement. One could take it a step further to use my automated mailing program, but that is over-automation in my mind.
What a dumb idea jon (me)...I decided to move PR into NEWS file.
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