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Update unicode-branch version numbers and ChangeLog file names
2005-02-12 Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
* etc/TODO, etc/PROBLEMS, etc/NEWS: Replace references to Emacs version "22"
with "23".
2005-02-12 Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
* lisp/version.el (emacs-version): Change to "23.0.0".
* lisp/descr-text.el (describe-char-unidata-list):
Replace references to Emacs version "22" with "23".
* lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el (byte-compile-fix-header)
(byte-compile-insert-header): Likewise.
* lisp/international/mule.el (charset-list, set-coding-priority)
(ignore-relative-composition): Likewise.
* lisp/international/mule-util.el (detect-coding-with-priority): Likewise.
* lisp/international/mule-diag.el: Likewise.
* lisp/international/mule-cmds.el (language-info-custom-alist): Likewise.
* lisp/international/codepage.el (codepage-setup): Likewise.
2005-02-13 Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Rename unicode-branch-specific ChangeLog files to
"ChangeLog.unicode" from "ChangeLog.22"
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1 Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs. |
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2 -- originally written by Gerd Moellmann, amended by Francesco Potort́ |
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3 with the initial help of Eli Zaretskii |
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5 For each step, check for possible errors. |
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7 1. cvs -q update -Pd |
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9 2. Bootstrap to make 100% sure all elc files are up-to-date, and to |
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10 make sure that the later tagged version will bootstrap, should it be |
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11 necessary to check it out. |
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13 3. Regenerate Emacs' AUTHORS file (M-x load-file RET |
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14 lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el RET, then M-x authors RET, then save |
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15 the *Authors* buffer). This may require fixing syntactically |
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16 incorrect ChangeLog entries beforehand. |
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18 4. Set the version number (M-x load-file RET admin/admin.el RET, then |
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19 M-x set-version RET). For a release, add released change log |
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20 entries (M-x add-release-logs RET). |
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22 5. rm configure; make bootstrap |
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24 6. Commit configure, README, AUTHORS, lisp/loaddefs.el, |
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25 lisp/cus-load.el, lisp/finder-inf.el, lisp/version.el, |
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26 man/emacs.texi. For a release, also commit the ChangeLog files in |
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27 all directories. |
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29 7. make-dist --snapshot. Check the contents of the new tar with |
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30 admin/diff-tar-files against an older tar file. Some old pretest |
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32 old emacs tarballs are at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/>. | |
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34 8. xdelta delta emacs-OLD.tar.gz emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta |
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36 9. tar -zxf emacs-NEW.tar.gz; cd emacs-NEW |
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37 configure && make && make -n install |
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38 Use `script' or M-x compile to save the compilation log in |
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39 compile-NEW.log and compare it against an old one. The easiest way |
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40 to do that is to visit the old log in Emacs, change the version |
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41 number of the old Emacs to __, do the same with the new log and do |
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42 M-x ediff. Especially check that Info files aren't built. |
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44 10. cd EMACS_ROOT_DIR; cvs tag TAG |
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48 11. admin/make-announcement OLD NEW |
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51 to be crafted by hand. Use an older announcement to start with: |
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52 look in ssh://fencepost.gnu.org/~pot/emacs-tarballs/. |
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54 12. Now you should upload the files to the GNU ftp server. In order to |
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55 do that, you must be registered as an Emacs maintainer and have your |
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56 GPG key acknowledged by the ftp people. Mail <ftp-upload@gnu.org> |
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57 for instructions. Once you are there, for each file FILE to be |
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58 released, create a detached GPG binary signature and a clearsigned |
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60 gpg -b FILE |
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61 echo directory: emacs/pretest > FILE.directive (for a pretest) |
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62 echo directory: emacs > FILE.directive (for a release) |
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63 gpg --clearsign FILE.directive |
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64 Upload by anonymous ftp to ftp://ftp-upload.gnu.org/incoming/ftp/ |
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65 the files FILE, FILE.sig, FILE.directive.asc |
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72 tell him to announce it using the announcement you prepared. Remind |
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73 him to set a Reply-to header to <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>. |
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74 For a release, Richard should prepare the announcement himself, |
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75 possibly starting from a previous announcment. |
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77 # arch-tag: c23c771f-ca26-4584-8a04-50ecf0989390 |