Rough Guide to doing Stable Point Releases in Debian
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+o Dump projectb for backup purposes.
+o get everything listed, dak control-suite -l proposed-updates > p-u.list
+o add everything to stable: cat p-u.list |dak control-suite --add stable
+o remove everything from proposed-updates, dak control-suite -r proposed-updates < p-u.list
+o sync with stable RM if there is any propup needed. do it, if so.
+o ask rms if they have RMs to do.
+o If you installed a debian-installer upload; migrate the relevant
+ installer-*/$release directory from proposed-updates to stable.
+ (Including potentially removing older versions)
+o Update version number in README, README.html and dists/README
+o Update the 'Debian<n>.<n>r<n>' symlink in dists/
+o Clean up dists/stable/ChangeLog (add header, basically)
+o Update fields in suite table in postgresql (see below)
+
+o Run 'dak make-suite-file-list --force -s stable'
+o Run 'dak generate-filelist -s stable'
+o Run apt-ftparchive generate apt.conf.stable
+o Run 'dak generate-releases --force-touch --apt-conf apt.conf.stable stable'
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+
+
+
+begin;
+update suite set version = '5.0.4' where suite_name = 'stable';
+update suite set description = 'Debian 5.0.4 Released 29 Januar 2010' where suite_name = 'stable';
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Old doc:
+
+
o run 'dak clean-proposed-updates' to get rid of obsolete .changes
from p-u ['dak clean-proposed-updates *.changes' from within p-u]
o [also check for obsolete .changes caused by 'dak rm'-ing from p-u]
NB: removing packages are not logged to the stable ChangeLog; you
need to do that byhand.
-o If you installed a debian-installer upload; migrate the relevant
- installer-*/$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 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