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Xfce Release How To
This how to is under development but it might help. Feel free to contribute.
Considerations before releasing
- Are the translations up to date, are the translator aware of you going to release.
- All patches are applied and all known critical bugs fixed.
- Do you have the feeling: “Yes, this code ready to be released upon the world, everyone should be able to enjoy it” ;)
Files to update before release
- Release information:
ChangeLog
,NEWS
. - Common information:
README
,AUTHORS
,THANKS
,TODO
(when present).
Configure script
- Update version in the configure script template
configure.in.in
orconfigure.ac.in
. - Remove
git
from<package>_version_tag
. - Check the build dependencies.
Check release package
- Run
./autogen.sh
. - Run
make distcheck
- Check auto generated files:
INSTALL
,COPYING
- If at this stage everything works, commit all changes for release to master.
- Now you are ready to tag the current master:
git tag -a <package version/tag name> git push git push --tags
You can sign tags with a GPG key by adding an additional parameter to the git tag
command. For more information about tagging read the ''git-tag'' manual.
Post-release
- Edit
configure.in.in
orconfigure.ac.in
. - Change
<package>_version_major
,<package>_version_minor
and<package>_version_micro
version to the next version. - Reset
<package>_version_tag
togit
.