[python-committers] what's going on with Misc/NEWS?

I was trying to do a simple merge of a doc change between 3.3 and default and the usual Misc/NEWS conflict came up. But when I looked at the diff it was massive! Turns out that Misc/NEWS in default goes from 3.3.1rc1 to 3.4.0a1 (http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/24ffb0148729/Misc/NEWS) while Misc/NEWS in 3.3 goes properly through all versions between 3.3.1rc1 to 3.3.3rc1 (http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/3c4a5dc29417/Misc/NEWS).

I have to get to work so I don't have time to fix this, but if someone does have the time to unwind this mix-up that has accumulated that would be great. And maybe it's finally time to bite the bullet and come up with some way to automatically generate Misc/NEWS from commit messages.