makedist | 1 -

diff --git a/makedist b/makedist
index 6a68579fd763cce7852033b44a5441a8a2e4b90cc2077589705d5a7a88a61951..e1f376f633fb918fd244b15467b7a82930558573bde27bafdaf0c7ce8a79c25f 100755
--- a/makedist
+++ b/makedist
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@
 size=$(( $(stat -f %z $tarball) / 1024 ))
 release_date=$(date "+%Y-%m-%d")
 
-release_underscored=`echo $release | tr . _`
 cat <<EOF
 Release [NEWS]#$release | $release_date | $size KiB
     => download/$tarball.meta4 meta4