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diff --git a/doc/releases.txt b/doc/releases.txt
index 320c8a0..a1b5478 100644
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+++ b/doc/releases.txt
@@ -38,14 +38,19 @@ Making the release:
* unpack tar.gz in temporary directory
* make diff from last release by unpacking it also in temporary directory
and running e.g.
- diff -uNr sane-backends-1.0.14 sane-backends-1.0.15 > sane-backends-1.0.14-1.0.15.diff
+ diff -uNr sane-backends-1.0.23 sane-backends-1.0.24 > sane-backends-1.0.23-1.0.24.diff
* check that the diff applies cleanly to the old version
* gzip the diff
* install devel headers required to build optional backends (1284,gphoto,etc)
* check that the new version .tar.gz can be compiled
-* upload these files together with the .diff.gz to the FTP/HTTP servers
+* upload the .tar.gz, tar.gz.md5 and .diff.gz to the FTP/HTTP servers
(at the moment: alioth.debian.org, ftp files are in
/srv/alioth.debian.org/chroot/ftproot/pub/sane/ )
+ In the alioth web interface, you should upload the smallest file first,
+ since you don't get error messages until after an upload completes,
+ and you might need to change something.
+ You can add the larger files afterwards. You may have to split larger
+ files.
Announcing the release:
@@ -55,15 +60,15 @@ Announcing the release:
* rebuild sane-backends.html and sane-mfgs.html (make -C doc html-pages)
* use man2html from http://hydra.nac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/man2html.html
to rebuild html man pages (make -C doc html-man) (no other version works)
-* add md5 sum to sane-md5sum.txt
+* add md5 sum to sane-md5sums.txt
* check and update platforms page (sane-support.html)
* add announcement to index.html
* git commit -a && git push
* check that website was updated automatically. if not, see:
- /org/alioth.debian.org/chroot/home/groups/sane/bin/update-htdocs.sh
+ /home/groups/sane/bin/update-htdocs.sh
* rebuild descriptions.db (make -C doc descriptions.db)
* scp doc/descriptions.db to alioth:
- /org/alioth.debian.org/chroot/home/groups/sane/search/release
+ /home/groups/sane/search/release
* write announcements sane-devel, maybe others (e.g. freshmeat),
include the md5 hash