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authorJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2017-07-15 11:29:05 +0200
committerJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2017-07-15 11:29:05 +0200
commit324a8a71bb7d9e4f8bc49b6bc47efaf9fb58282e (patch)
treebd2d48a139bfbe869f4f49359b63097931a45e7b /doc/releases.txt
parent2ca8a81bd0d99fe4d75c229d0e988d8ef710285f (diff)
parent1edb02101a9306fc711cd422ed507d18165b1691 (diff)
Merge branch 'release/experimental/1.0.27-1_experimental1'experimental/1.0.27-1_experimental1
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@@ -14,22 +14,26 @@ Day 35: Release
Before the release:
-* set :new :yes on any new backend .desc files
+* set :new :yes on any new backend .desc files, by looking for added files:
+
+ cd backend
+ ls | while read aa; do git log --follow --diff-filter=A --find-renames=40% --format="%ai $aa" "$aa"; done > foo.log
+
+ Then inspect foo.log for any files added since the last release.
* Make sure that config.guess and config.sub are up-to-date (get them from
- savannah.gnu.org/projects/config)
-* configure.in: increase version number
-* configure.in: remove 'git' from textual version number
-* configure.in: set is_release=yes
-* OPTIONAL: aclocal.m4: recreate by running aclocal
-* OPTIONAL: include/sane/config.h.in: recreate (autoheader in root of checkout)
-* DONT run autoreconf, it will overwrite our custom ltmain.sh
-* configure: recreate by running autoconf
-* NEWS: update and enter date of release
+ savannah.gnu.org/projects/config) (git clone is easiest)
+* configure.ac: remove 'git' from textual version number, and increment it
+* run autoreconf --force but do *NOT* use the --install option as it will
+ overwrite our custom ltmain.sh
+* ChangeLog: generate from git log, something like:
+ git log RELEASE_1_0_25..HEAD > ChangeLog
+* NEWS: update and enter date of release, etc
+ Get list of heavily change backends via: git diff --stat RELEASE_1_0_25
+ Get other things by reading ChangeLog
* sane-backends.lsm: update
-* ChangeLog: set release marker
* git commit -a
* tag git with release tag; e.g.: 'git tag -a RELEASE_1_0_15'
-* probably DONT want to git push here, cause alioth will rebuild it's local
+* probably DONT want to git push here, because alioth will rebuild it's local
checkout needlessly
Making the release:
@@ -74,13 +78,17 @@ Announcing the release:
After the release:
-* move ChangeLog to ChangeLog-"version"
-* start a new ChangeLog
-* add ChangeLog-"version" to EXTRA_DIST in Makefile.in and Makefile.am
-* configure.in: bump textual version & add 'git' suffix
-* configure.in: bump V_REV
-* configure.in: set is_release=no
+#### consider not adding old changelogs to release package
+* move ChangeLog to ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-"version"
+* start a new ChangeLog, with the following message:
+
+This file is automatically generated at release time using git commit messages.
+
+For the latest changes please refer to the output of `git log` or see:
+https://alioth.debian.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=sane/sane-backends.git;a=log
+
+* configure.ac: bump textual version & add 'git' suffix
* configure: regenerate with autoconf
* remove the ':new' tag from any new backends .desc files
* git add new files and commit
-* git push --tags
+* git push && git push --tags (one of these might give an error 'remote: fatal: bad object 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000', try the other one)