Rough Guide to doing Stable Point Releases in Debian ---------------------------------------------------- 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 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 (ftp-master only) o Update the 'Debian.r' 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 Comment out "Untouchable" in dak.conf o Run 'dak make-suite-file-list -s stable' o Run apt-ftparchive generate apt.conf.stable 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 Yes, this sucks and more of it should be automated. ####################################################### update suite set version = '4.0r1' where suite_name = 'stable'; update suite set description = 'Debian 4.0r1 Released 15th August 2007' where suite_name = 'stable';