From 1695d269c6d7f5ac77e4c0bb5fe395c943fe025c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Groth <christoph.groth@cea.fr>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 16:39:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] improve release instructions
---
RELEASE.rst | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/RELEASE.rst b/RELEASE.rst
index 1a44b06e..f6ae00fd 100644
--- a/RELEASE.rst
+++ b/RELEASE.rst
@@ -280,6 +280,14 @@ current Debian testing)::
ARCH=i386 DIST=<dist> git-pbuilder update
ARCH=amd64 DIST=<dist> git-pbuilder update
+Make sure that the working directory is completely clear::
+
+ git clean -id
+
+(Note that pytest has the nasty habit of creating a hidden ``.pytest_cache``
+directory which gitignores itself. The above command will not delete this
+directory, but git-pbuilder will complain.)
+
Now build the packages. First the i386 package. The option "--git-tag" tags
and signs the tag if the build is successful. In a second step, the package is
built for amd64, but only the architecture-dependent files (not the
@@ -439,7 +447,7 @@ We will also use the following script (prepare_ppa_upload)::
for release in $@; do
cp /tmp/changelog.$$ debian/changelog
DEBEMAIL=christoph.groth@cea.fr dch -b -v "$version~$release" -u low 'Ubuntu PPA upload'
- sed -i -e "1,1 s/UNRELEASED/$release/" debian/changelog
+ sed -i -e "1,1 s/UNRELEASED/${release%[0-9]}/" debian/changelog
debuild -S -sa
done
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