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How to make a new release of GNU Stow
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Prerequisite reading
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--------------------
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First read the official information for maintainers of GNU software:
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https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/
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Release procedure
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-----------------
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- Set a shell variable to the version to be released, e.g. if the
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final step of this document was carried out after the previous
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release was published:
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version=$( git describe --match v* --abbrev=0 )
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- Ensure NEWS contains the latest changes, and that any new
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contributors have been added to THANKS.
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- git commit -m "Prepare NEWS and THANKS for $version release"
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- Ensure configure.ac contains the new version number.
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This should follow Semantic Versioning as described at:
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http://semver.org/
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- Check CPAN distribution will work via Module::Build:
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- Generate stow, chkstow, and lib/Stow.pm via:
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eval `perl -V:siteprefix`
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automake --add-missing
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./configure --prefix=$siteprefix && make
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(N.B. the CPAN distribution will contain these files, whereas
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the GNU distribution will not.)
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- Make sure all the following commands all run successfully:
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perl Build.PL --prefix=/tmp/stow-test
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./Build test
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./Build install
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./Build distcheck
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./Build distmeta
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- Check META.yaml and META.json have the new version number.
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They already should if the final step of this document was
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carried out after the previous release was published, but
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if not:
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git commit -m "Bump version to X.Y.Z"
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- Ensure all changes are committed to git.
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- Run make distcheck and ensure that everything looks good.
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It should generate the distribution files for you.
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- Tag the current git HEAD with the new version number:
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git tag -s $version -m "Release $version"
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- Push HEAD and tag to savannah and GitHub:
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git push savannah
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git push --tags savannah
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git push github
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git push --tags github
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- Regenerate the documentation for the website:
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# First check out gnulib repository via:
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# git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git
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# and stow-web CVS repository via the instructions here:
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# https://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=stow
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# Set paths:
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stow_repo=/path/to/stow/git/repo
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stow_web_repo=/path/to/stow-web/CVS/working/dir
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gnulib_repo=/path/to/gnulib/git/repo
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cd $stow_repo
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export GENDOCS_TEMPLATE_DIR=$gnulib_repo/doc
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$gnulib_repo/util/gendocs.sh \
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-s doc/stow.texi \
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-o $stow_web_repo/manual \
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--email bug-stow@gnu.org \
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stow "GNU Stow manual"
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cd $stow_web_repo
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# Check that the changes look OK
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cvs diff
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# Then commit
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cvs commit -m 'Update manual to v7.8.9'
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- Run ./Build dist
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- Upload the resulting Stow-v7.8.9.tar.gz to CPAN via https://pause.perl.org/
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- Upload to ftp.gnu.org. This is easiest using gnupload:
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- git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git
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- Copy gnulib/build-aux/gnupload to somewhere on your $PATH
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- Run gnupload --to ftp.gnu.org:stow --symlink-regex stow-7.8.9.tar.*
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- Send release announcements to
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- info-stow@gnu.org
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- stow-devel@gnu.org
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- info-gnu@gnu.org
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- https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?group=stow
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See http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Announcements.html for
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more on making release announcements.
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- Update the git repositories to the next expected version, so that anyone
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who builds from git gets a version of Stow which is higher than the release
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which was just cut:
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- Increment the patchlevel of the version number in configure.ac.
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- Repeat the same procedure listed in the Module::Build section
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above, in order to update META.yaml and META.json.
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- git commit -m "Bump version to X.Y.Z for development of next release"
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- git push savannah
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- git push github
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