1 Rough Guide to doing Stable Point Releases in Debian
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4 o run 'dak clean-proposed-updates' to get rid of obsolete .changes
5 from p-u ['dak clean-proposed-updates *.changes' from within p-u]
6 o [also check for obsolete .changes caused by 'dak rm'-ing from p-u]
7 o Update dak.conf (at least the section for Reject-Proposed-Updates,
8 before using 'dak reject-proposed-updates')
9 o Install, reject and remove packages as directed by the SRM using
10 'dak process-accepted' (installs), 'dak reject-proposed-updates'
11 (rejects) and 'dak rm' (removals)
13 NB: removing packages are not logged to the stable ChangeLog; you
14 need to do that byhand.
16 o Do anything in proposed-updates/TODO
17 o Close any applicable stable bugs
18 (hint: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=ftp.debian.org&include=etch)
19 o Update version number in README, README.html and dists/README (ftp-master only)
20 o Update the 'Debian<n>.<n>r<n>' symlink in dists/
21 o Clean up dists/stable/ChangeLog (add header, basically)
22 o Update version fields in dak.conf
23 o Update fields in suite table in postgresql (see below)
25 o Comment out "Untouchable" in dak.conf
26 o Run 'dak make-suite-file-list -s stable'
27 o Run apt-ftparchive generate apt.conf.stable
28 o Run 'dak generate-releases stable' ** FIXME: requires apt.conf.stable stanza for stable in apt.conf
29 ** FIXME: must be run as dak
30 o Uncomment "Untouchable" in dak.conf
32 Yes, this sucks and more of it should be automated.
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36 update suite set version = '4.0r1' where suite_name = 'stable';
37 update suite set description = 'Debian 4.0r1 Released 15th August 2007' where suite_name = 'stable';