From: James Troup Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:35:09 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Trivial cleanups and rough old stable notes X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c227a240809c7b5dd17d6b977debf4ff9283bea4;p=dak Trivial cleanups and rough old stable notes --- diff --git a/docs/README.stable-point-release b/docs/README.stable-point-release index d2dce464..176b33eb 100644 --- a/docs/README.stable-point-release +++ b/docs/README.stable-point-release @@ -19,9 +19,10 @@ o If you installed a debian-installer upload; migrate the relevant o Decruft stable in coordination with SRMs -o Do anything in proposed-updates/TODO o Close any applicable stable bugs +o Do anything in proposed-updates/TODO +o Close any applicable stable bugs (hint: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=ftp.debian.org&include=etch) -o Update version number in README, README.html and dists/README (ftp-master only) +o Update version number in README, README.html and dists/README o Update the 'Debian.r' symlink in dists/ o Clean up dists/stable/ChangeLog (add header, basically) o Update version fields in dak.conf @@ -37,3 +38,15 @@ o Run 'dak generate-releases --force-touch --apt-conf apt.conf.stable stable' update suite set version = '4.0r3' where suite_name = 'stable'; update suite set description = 'Debian 4.0r3 Released 16th February 2008' where suite_name = 'stable'; + +Rough Guide to doing Old-Stable Point Releases in Debian +-------------------------------------------------------- + +Pretty much as above, except that process-accepted doesn't know about +oldstable, so you have to do some surgery on it first to make it +support that. Probably want to disable cron.daily whilst doing so. +Also watch out for the installing_to_stable detection which doesn't +work well with the current layout of oldstable-proposed-updates (as a +symlink to $distro-proposed-updates). clean-proposed-updates, +cruft-report and most everything else support a -s/--suite so they +sould be fine to use.