diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7a2d92d7b8..af0259f847 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ updates_key.pem
 *.class
 
 # Generated
+AUTHORS
 README.txt
+.mailmap
 *.1
 *.bash-completion
 *.fish
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 480b5c7006..38d83a9a53 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-include README.md
-include LICENSE
 include AUTHORS
-include ChangeLog
-include yt-dlp.bash-completion
-include yt-dlp.fish
+include Changelog.md
+include LICENSE
+include README.md
+include completions/*/*
+include supportedsites.md
 include yt-dlp.1
-recursive-include docs Makefile conf.py *.rst
+recursive-include devscripts *
 recursive-include test *
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c3669a0365..e55f111030 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,12 +1,28 @@
 all: yt-dlp doc man
+clean: clean-test clean-dist clean-cache
+completions: completion-bash completion-fish completion-zsh
 doc: README.md CONTRIBUTING.md issuetemplates supportedsites
-man: README.txt yt-dlp.1 bash-completion zsh-completion fish-completion
+ot: offlinetest
+tar: yt-dlp.tar.gz
 
+# Keep this list in sync with MANIFEST.in
+# intended use: when building a source distribution,
+# make pypi-files && python setup.py sdist
+pypi-files: AUTHORS Changelog.md LICENSE README.md README.txt supportedsites completions yt-dlp.1 devscripts/* test/*
 
-clean:
-	rm -rf yt-dlp.1.temp.md yt-dlp.1 README.txt MANIFEST build/ dist/ .coverage cover/ yt-dlp.tar.gz completions/ yt_dlp/extractor/lazy_extractors.py *.dump *.part* *.ytdl *.info.json *.mp4 *.m4a *.flv *.mp3 *.avi *.mkv *.webm *.3gp *.wav *.ape *.swf *.jpg *.png *.spec *.frag *.frag.urls *.frag.aria2 CONTRIBUTING.md.tmp yt-dlp yt-dlp.exe
-	find . -name "*.pyc" -delete
-	find . -name "*.class" -delete
+.PHONY: all clean install test tar pypi-files completions ot offlinetest codetest supportedsites
+
+clean-test:
+	rm -rf *.dump *.part* *.ytdl *.info.json *.mp4 *.m4a *.flv *.mp3 *.avi *.mkv *.webm *.3gp *.wav *.ape *.swf *.jpg *.png *.frag *.frag.urls *.frag.aria2
+clean-dist:
+	rm -rf yt-dlp.1.temp.md yt-dlp.1 README.txt MANIFEST build/ dist/ .coverage cover/ yt-dlp.tar.gz completions/ yt_dlp/extractor/lazy_extractors.py *.spec CONTRIBUTING.md.tmp yt-dlp yt-dlp.exe yt_dlp.egg-info/ AUTHORS .mailmap
+clean-cache:
+	find . -name "*.pyc" -o -name "*.class" -delete
+
+completion-bash: completions/bash/yt-dlp
+completion-fish: completions/fish/yt-dlp.fish
+completion-zsh: completions/zsh/_yt-dlp
+lazy-extractors: yt_dlp/extractor/lazy_extractors.py
 
 PREFIX ?= /usr/local
 BINDIR ?= $(PREFIX)/bin
@@ -21,7 +37,7 @@ SYSCONFDIR = $(shell if [ $(PREFIX) = /usr -o $(PREFIX) = /usr/local ]; then ech
 # set markdown input format to "markdown-smart" for pandoc version 2 and to "markdown" for pandoc prior to version 2
 MARKDOWN = $(shell if [ `pandoc -v | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2 | head -c1` = "2" ]; then echo markdown-smart; else echo markdown; fi)
 
-install: yt-dlp yt-dlp.1 bash-completion zsh-completion fish-completion
+install: yt-dlp yt-dlp.1 completions
 	install -Dm755 yt-dlp $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)
 	install -Dm644 yt-dlp.1 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man1
 	install -Dm644 completions/bash/yt-dlp $(DESTDIR)$(SHAREDIR)/bash-completion/completions/yt-dlp
@@ -36,8 +52,6 @@ test:
 	nosetests --verbose test
 	$(MAKE) codetest
 
-ot: offlinetest
-
 # Keep this list in sync with devscripts/run_tests.sh
 offlinetest: codetest
 	$(PYTHON) -m nose --verbose test \
@@ -52,12 +66,6 @@ offlinetest: codetest
 		--exclude test_youtube_signature.py \
 		--exclude test_post_hooks.py
 
-tar: yt-dlp.tar.gz
-
-.PHONY: all clean install test tar bash-completion pypi-files zsh-completion fish-completion ot offlinetest codetest supportedsites
-
-pypi-files: README.txt yt-dlp.1 bash-completion zsh-completion fish-completion
-
 yt-dlp: yt_dlp/*.py yt_dlp/*/*.py
 	mkdir -p zip
 	for d in yt_dlp yt_dlp/downloader yt_dlp/extractor yt_dlp/postprocessor ; do \
@@ -101,28 +109,20 @@ completions/bash/yt-dlp: yt_dlp/*.py yt_dlp/*/*.py devscripts/bash-completion.in
 	mkdir -p completions/bash
 	$(PYTHON) devscripts/bash-completion.py
 
-bash-completion: completions/bash/yt-dlp
-
 completions/zsh/_yt-dlp: yt_dlp/*.py yt_dlp/*/*.py devscripts/zsh-completion.in
 	mkdir -p completions/zsh
 	$(PYTHON) devscripts/zsh-completion.py
 
-zsh-completion: completions/zsh/_yt-dlp
-
 completions/fish/yt-dlp.fish: yt_dlp/*.py yt_dlp/*/*.py devscripts/fish-completion.in
 	mkdir -p completions/fish
 	$(PYTHON) devscripts/fish-completion.py
 
-fish-completion: completions/fish/yt-dlp.fish
-
-lazy-extractors: yt_dlp/extractor/lazy_extractors.py
-
 _EXTRACTOR_FILES = $(shell find yt_dlp/extractor -iname '*.py' -and -not -iname 'lazy_extractors.py')
 yt_dlp/extractor/lazy_extractors.py: devscripts/make_lazy_extractors.py devscripts/lazy_load_template.py $(_EXTRACTOR_FILES)
 	$(PYTHON) devscripts/make_lazy_extractors.py $@
 
-yt-dlp.tar.gz: yt-dlp README.md README.txt yt-dlp.1 bash-completion zsh-completion fish-completion ChangeLog AUTHORS
-	@tar -czf yt-dlp.tar.gz --transform "s|^|yt-dlp/|" --owner 0 --group 0 \
+yt-dlp.tar.gz: README.md yt-dlp.1 completions Changelog.md AUTHORS
+	@tar -czf $(DESTDIR)/yt-dlp.tar.gz --transform "s|^|yt-dlp/|" --owner 0 --group 0 \
 		--exclude '*.DS_Store' \
 		--exclude '*.kate-swp' \
 		--exclude '*.pyc' \
@@ -132,7 +132,13 @@ yt-dlp.tar.gz: yt-dlp README.md README.txt yt-dlp.1 bash-completion zsh-completi
 		--exclude '.git' \
 		--exclude 'docs/_build' \
 		-- \
-		bin devscripts test yt_dlp docs \
-		ChangeLog AUTHORS LICENSE README.md supportedsites.md README.txt \
+		devscripts test \
+		Changelog.md AUTHORS LICENSE README.md supportedsites.md \
 		Makefile MANIFEST.in yt-dlp.1 completions \
 		setup.py setup.cfg yt-dlp
+
+AUTHORS: .mailmap
+	git shortlog -s -n | cut -f2 | sort > AUTHORS
+
+.mailmap:
+	git shortlog -s -e -n | awk '!(out[$$NF]++) { $$1="";sub(/^[ \t]+/,""); print}' > .mailmap
diff --git a/devscripts/release.sh b/devscripts/release.sh
index 86294d56b3..d0266f391d 100755
--- a/devscripts/release.sh
+++ b/devscripts/release.sh
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ if ! type pandoc >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then echo 'ERROR: pandoc is missing'; e
 if ! python3 -c 'import rsa' 2>/dev/null; then echo 'ERROR: python3-rsa is missing'; exit 1; fi
 if ! python3 -c 'import wheel' 2>/dev/null; then echo 'ERROR: wheel is missing'; exit 1; fi
 
-read -p "Is ChangeLog up to date? (y/n) " -n 1
+read -p "Is Changelog up to date? (y/n) " -n 1
 if [[ ! $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then exit 1; fi
 
 /bin/echo -e "\n### First of all, testing..."
@@ -75,12 +75,12 @@ fi
 /bin/echo -e "\n### Changing version in version.py..."
 sed -i "s/__version__ = '.*'/__version__ = '$version'/" yt_dlp/version.py
 
-/bin/echo -e "\n### Changing version in ChangeLog..."
-sed -i "s/<unreleased>/$version/" ChangeLog
+/bin/echo -e "\n### Changing version in Changelog..."
+sed -i "s/<unreleased>/$version/" Changelog.md
 
 /bin/echo -e "\n### Committing documentation, templates and yt_dlp/version.py..."
 make README.md CONTRIBUTING.md issuetemplates supportedsites
-git add README.md CONTRIBUTING.md .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/1_broken_site.md .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/2_site_support_request.md .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/3_site_feature_request.md .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/4_bug_report.md .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/5_feature_request.md .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/6_question.md docs/supportedsites.md yt_dlp/version.py ChangeLog
+git add README.md CONTRIBUTING.md .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/1_broken_site.md .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/2_site_support_request.md .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/3_site_feature_request.md .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/4_bug_report.md .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/5_feature_request.md .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/6_question.md docs/supportedsites.md yt_dlp/version.py Changelog.md
 git commit $gpg_sign_commits -m "release $version"
 
 /bin/echo -e "\n### Now tagging, signing and pushing..."
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ RELEASE_FILES="yt-dlp yt-dlp.exe yt-dlp-$version.tar.gz"
 for f in $RELEASE_FILES; do gpg --passphrase-repeat 5 --detach-sig "build/$version/$f"; done
 
 ROOT=$(pwd)
-python devscripts/create-github-release.py ChangeLog $version "$ROOT/build/$version"
+python devscripts/create-github-release.py Changelog.md $version "$ROOT/build/$version"
 
 ssh ytdl@yt-dl.org "sh html/update_latest.sh $version"
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 20dbe573cf..babdc45afc 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@
     print("inv")
 else:
     files_spec = [
-        ('share/bash-completion/completions', ['completions/bash/*']),
-        ('share/zsh/site-functions', ['completions/zsh/*']),
-        ('share/fish/vendor_completions.d', ['completions/fish/*']),
+        ('share/bash-completion/completions', ['completions/bash/yt-dlp']),
+        ('share/zsh/site-functions', ['completions/zsh/_yt-dlp']),
+        ('share/fish/vendor_completions.d', ['completions/fish/yt-dlp.fish']),
         ('share/doc/yt_dlp', ['README.txt']),
         ('share/man/man1', ['yt-dlp.1'])
     ]
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
         resfiles = []
         for fn in files:
             if not os.path.exists(fn):
-                warnings.warn('Skipping file %s since it is not present. Type  make  to build all automatically generated files.' % fn)
+                warnings.warn('Skipping file %s since it is not present. Try running `make pypi-files` first.' % fn)
             else:
                 resfiles.append(fn)
         data_files.append((dirname, resfiles))