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| author | Alexander Barton <alex@barton.de> | 2020-05-10 00:14:04 +0200 |
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| committer | Alexander Barton <alex@barton.de> | 2020-05-10 00:14:04 +0200 |
| commit | e889de9d92adf09f9c77df03d8a85736bc15d380 (patch) | |
| tree | 87aac21c9b1e97f5155edcb8e5fc769551a1bcf7 /doc | |
| parent | fcf2874a9d64675c64afbce58cd4cdc73de54978 (diff) | |
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Tweak & update doc/HowToRelease.txt a bit ...
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diff --git a/doc/HowToRelease.txt b/doc/HowToRelease.txt index 81eae40d..5c365f94 100644 --- a/doc/HowToRelease.txt +++ b/doc/HowToRelease.txt @@ -35,13 +35,20 @@ up-to-date (e.g. using ./autogen.sh) before generating the archives! II. How to prepare a new ngIRCd release? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -a) Make sure the source tree is in a releasable state ;-) - - is the AUTHORS file up to date? - -b) Make sure you have working versions of GNU autoconf and GNU automake +a) Make sure you have working versions of GNU autoconf and GNU automake installed on the system you use for generating the release: - as of October 2010 we are using GNU autoconf 2.67 and GNU automake 1.11.1 + as of May 2020 we are using GNU autoconf 2.69 and GNU automake 1.11.6 which seem to work just fine. + NOTE: new releases of GNU automake DO NOT work, as they lack support for + the "ansi2knr" wrapper and "de-ANSI-fication" support! + +b) Make sure the source tree is in a releasable state ;-) + - Are all branches & patches merged? Check GitHub issues, pull requests + and milestones! + - Run as many tests as you can! + - Is the AUTHORS file up to date? This command may be helpful: + "( grep '>$' AUTHORS; git shortlog -se | cut -c8- ) | grep -Ev \ + '(alex@barton.de|fw@strlen.de)' | LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 sort -u" c) Update the files describing the new release: - ChangeLog |