Rough Guide to doing Stable Point Releases in Debian
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-o use halle to get rid of obsolete .changes from p-u ['halle *.changes' from within p-u]
-o [also check for obsolete .changes caused by melanie-ing from p-u]
+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
- kelly (installs), lauren (rejects) and melanie (removals)
+ '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 Do anything in proposed-updates/TODO
-o Close any applicable woody bugs
+o Close any applicable stable 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 version number in README, README.html 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 version fields in dak.conf[-non-US]
o Update fields in suite table in postgresql (see below)
-o Comment out "Untouchable" in katie.conf[-non-US]
-o Run 'jenna -s stable'
+o Comment out "Untouchable" in dak.conf[-non-US]
+o Run 'dak make-suite-file-list -s stable'
o Run apt-ftparchive generate apt.conf.stable[-non-US]
-o Run 'ziyi stable' ** FIXME: requires apt.conf.stable stanza for stable in apt.conf
- ** FIXME: must be run as katie
-o Uncomment "Untouchable" in katie.conf[-non-US]
+o Run 'dak generate-releases stable' ** FIXME: requires apt.conf.stable stanza for stable in apt.conf
+ ** FIXME: must be run as dak
+o Uncomment "Untouchable" in dak.conf[-non-US]
Yes, this sucks and more of it should be automated.
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-update suite set version = '3.0r3' where suite_name = 'stable';
-update suite set description = 'Debian 3.0r3 Released 25th October 2004' where suite_name = 'stable';
+update suite set version = '3.0r4' where suite_name = 'stable';
+update suite set description = 'Debian 3.0r4 Released 31st December 2004' where suite_name = 'stable';