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 Install, reject and remove packages as directed by the SRM using
8 'dak process-accepted' (installs), 'dak reject-proposed-updates'
9 (rejects) and 'dak rm' (removals)
11 NB: removing packages are not logged to the stable ChangeLog; you
12 need to do that byhand.
14 o Do anything in proposed-updates/TODO
15 o Close any applicable woody bugs
16 (hint: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=ftp.debian.org&include=woody)
17 o Update version number in README and dists/README (ftp-master only)
18 o Update the 'Debian<n>.<n>r<n>' symlink in dists/
19 o Clean up dists/ChangeLog (add header, basically)
20 o Update version fields in dak.conf[-non-US]
21 o Update fields in suite table in postgresql (see below)
23 o Comment out "Untouchable" in dak.conf[-non-US]
24 o Run 'dak make-suite-file-list -s stable'
25 o Run apt-ftparchive generate apt.conf.stable[-non-US]
26 o Run 'dak generate-releases stable' ** FIXME: requires apt.conf.stable stanza for stable in apt.conf
27 ** FIXME: must be run as dak
28 o Uncomment "Untouchable" in dak.conf[-non-US]
30 Yes, this sucks and more of it should be automated.
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34 update suite set version = '3.0r4' where suite_name = 'stable';
35 update suite set description = 'Debian 3.0r4 Released 31st December 2004' where suite_name = 'stable';