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commit fe62815aea70abda2e939a613b31267db8c4ba54
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Oct 29 17:25:26 2026 -0500
FOR-RELEASE: Update/clarify procedures.
---
FOR-RELEASE | 20 ++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/FOR-RELEASE b/FOR-RELEASE
index 870af7fed..f8cd6b1c0 100644
--- a/FOR-RELEASE
+++ b/FOR-RELEASE
@@ -79,9 +79,9 @@ prepared, as applicable.
* Run the "set-man-page-time-stamps" Makefile target from your build
directory to fix up the stamps on the man pages.
-* Build (and test!) a distribution archive with "make distcheck". It's
- not a good idea for any tests to be failing, but if they are, note the
- fact prominently in the release notes.
+* Build (and test!) a distribution archive with "make distclean" and
+ "make distcheck". It's not a good idea for any tests to be failing,
+ but if they are, note the fact prominently in the release notes.
* For official releases only (not release candidates), update
"doc/webpage.ms" to record the new version number and month of its
@@ -96,11 +96,15 @@ prepared, as applicable.
$ git tag -s -m 'release candidate 1.24.0.rc2' 1.24.0.rc2
-* Build and test a distribution archive again with "make distcheck".
- It's important to do this so that the archive unpacks to an
- appropriately named source directory. It's even more important after
- tagging a first release candidate, because doing so increments the
- version number visible in installed file names (such as
+* Rebootstrap your Git checkout to propagate the new tag into the
+ computed version string used everywhere except "NEWS" and
+ "arch/mingw/grap2graph.cmd", noted above.
+
+* Build and test a distribution archive again with "make distclean" and
+ "make distcheck". It's important to do this so that the archive
+ unpacks to an appropriately named source directory. It's even more
+ important after tagging a first release candidate, because doing so
+ increments the version number visible in installed file names (such as
"/usr/share/groff/1.24.0").
* If the distribution archive from the previous step is unacceptable,
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