Rough Guide to doing Stable Point Releases in Debian
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-o Install, reject and remove packages as directed by the SRM
+o Install, reject and remove packages as directed by the SRM using lauren
- NB1: !! you must run katie from within dists/proposed-updates; katie
- takes it's "I'm doing a point release" cue from the CWD. !!
-
- NB2: removing packages are not logged to the changelog; you need to
- do that byhand.
+ NB: removing packages are not logged to the stable ChangeLog; you
+ need to do that byhand.
o Do anything in proposed-updates/TODO
-o Close any applicable potato bugs
- (hint: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=ftp.debian.org&include=potato)
+o Close any applicable woody bugs
+ (hint: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=ftp.debian.org&include=woody)
o Update version number in README and dists/README (ftp-master only)
o Update the 'Debian<n>.<n>r<n>' symlink in dists/
o Clean up dists/ChangeLog (add header, basically)
o Update version fields in katie.conf[-non-US]
-o Update fields in suite table in postgresql
+o Update fields in suite table in postgresql (see below)
o Comment out "Untouchable" in katie.conf[-non-US]
o Run 'jenna -s stable'
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-update suite set version = '2.2r6' where suite_name = 'stable';
-update suite set version = '2.2r7' where suite_name = 'proposed-updates';
-update suite set description = 'Debian 2.2r6 Released 3rd April 2002' where suite_name = 'stable';
-update suite set description = 'Proposed Updates for Debian 2.2r6 - Not Released' where suite_name = 'proposed-updates';
+update suite set version = '3.0r1' where suite_name = 'stable';
+update suite set description = 'Debian 3.0r1 Released 15th December 2002' where suite_name = 'stable';