Rough Guide to doing Stable Point Releases in Debian
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o run 'dak clean-proposed-updates' to get rid of obsolete .changes
  from p-u ['dak clean-proposed-updates *.changes' from within p-u]
o [also check for obsolete .changes caused by 'dak rm'-ing from p-u]
o Update dak.conf (at least the section for Reject-Proposed-Updates,
  before using 'dak reject-proposed-updates')
o Install, reject and remove packages as directed by the SRM using
  'dak process-accepted' (installs), 'dak reject-proposed-updates'
  (rejects) and 'dak rm' (removals)

  NB: removing packages are not logged to the stable ChangeLog; you
      need to do that byhand.

o If you installed a debian-installer upload; migrate the relevant
  installer-*/$release directory from proposed-updates to stable.
  (Including potentially removing older versions)

o Decruft stable in coordination with SRMs

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
o Update the 'Debian<n>.<n>r<n>' symlink in dists/
o Clean up dists/stable/ChangeLog (add header, basically)
o Update version fields in dak.conf
o Update fields in suite table in postgresql (see below)

o Run 'dak make-suite-file-list --force -s stable'
o Run apt-ftparchive generate apt.conf.stable
o Run 'dak generate-releases --force-touch --apt-conf apt.conf.stable stable'

[Yes, this sucks and more of it should be automated. c.f. ~ajt/pointupdate]

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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
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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.