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 use halle to get rid of obsolete .changes
+o [also check for obsolete .changes caused by melanie-ing from p-u]
+o Install, reject and remove packages as directed by the SRM using lauren
+
+ 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 Update README and dists/README
+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 (see below)
+
o Comment out "Untouchable" in katie.conf[-non-US]
-o Run 'jenna -s'
o Run apt-ftparchive generate apt.conf.stable[-non-US]
+o Copy tree/directory for stable to apt.conf[-non-US]
+
+o Run 'jenna -s stable'
+o Run 'ziyi stable'
+
+o Remove tree/directory for stable from apt.conf[-non-US]
o Uncomment "Untouchable" in katie.conf[-non-US]
-o Update version fields in katie.conf[-non-US]
-o Update fields in suite table in postgresql
-o Copy tree/directory for stable to apt.conf[-non-US], run ziyi, remove it from apt.conf[-non-US]
Yes, this sucks and more of it should be automated.
-update suite set version = '2.2r5' where id = 2;
-update suite set version = '2.2r6' where id = 3;
-update suite set version = '3.0-testing' where id = 4;
-update suite set version = '3.0' where id = 5;
-update suite set version = '3.0-testing-updates' where id = 6;
-update suite set description = 'Debian 2.2r5 Released 10th January 2002' where id = 2;
-update suite set description = 'Proposed Updates for Debian 2.2r5 - Not Released' where id = 3;
-update suite set description = 'Debian 3.0 Testing distribution - Not Released' where id = 4;
-update suite set description = 'Debian 3.0 Unstable - Not Released' where id = 5;
-update suite set description = 'Debian 3.0 Testing distribution updates - Not Released' where id = 6;
-
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+update suite set version = '3.0r2' where suite_name = 'stable';
+update suite set description = 'Debian 3.0r2 Released 20th November 2003' where suite_name = 'stable';