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RELEASING: Add a (manual!) step to create a debian/changelog entry

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I'd like to have this be fully automated in the future, but for now,
it's an extra step.
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Carl Worth 2010-04-16 10:23:50 -07:00
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@ -35,7 +35,21 @@ repository. From here, there are just a few steps to release:
Commit this change, if any.
3) Run "make VERSION=X.Y release" which will perform the following steps:
3) Create an entry for the new release in debian/changelog
The syntax of this file is tightly restricted, but the
available emacs mode (see the dpkg-dev-el package helps). The
entries here will be the Debian-relevant single-line
description of changes from the NEWS entry. And the version
must match the version in the next step.
Commit this change.
XXX: It would be great if this step were automated as part of
release, (taking entries from NEWS and the version from the
VERSION, and creating a new commit).
4) Run "make VERSION=X.Y release" which will perform the following steps:
For the X.Y version, we'll generally just increment Y. But for
major milestones of usability we're increment X as well.
@ -58,7 +72,7 @@ repository. From here, there are just a few steps to release:
* Push that tag
* Provide some text for the release announcement (see below).
4) Send a message to notmuch@notmuchmail.org to announce the release.
5) Send a message to notmuch@notmuchmail.org to announce the release.
Use the text provided from "make release" above, (if for some
reason you lose this message, "make release-message" prints