Drop the check-news reqirement from autotools

This is a data-files backport only branch for convenience of those not
being able to update to 2.0 with the soname bump. So the git log has the
list of devices updated, no point having to write this twice.

configure.ac

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ AC_INIT([libwacom], [1.12]) # change meson.build as well
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
 
 # Initialize Automake
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2 no-dist-gzip check-news])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2 no-dist-gzip])
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([enable])
 
 # Enable silent build when available (Automake 1.11)