From a59a6ddef4a130b16d619e561a5d9886e305ac36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Akim Demaille Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 10:14:49 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] maint: update release instructions * README-hacking: here. --- README-hacking | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking index 5fab96c..d06d138 100644 --- a/README-hacking +++ b/README-hacking @@ -249,7 +249,10 @@ that the skeletons insert into generated parsers, and check all occurrences of PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR in configure.ac. ** Update NEWS, commit and tag. -See do-release-commit-and-tag in README-release. +See do-release-commit-and-tag in README-release. For a while, we used +beta names such as "2.6_rc1". Now that we use gnulib in the release +procedure, we must use "2.5.90", which has the additional benefit of +being properly sorted in "git tag -l". ** make alpha, beta, or stable See README-release. -- 2.7.4