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Notes for the GnuPG maintainer (GIT only)
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Here are some notes on how to maintain GnuPG.
Release Planning:
=================
If you are planning a new release and strings have changed you should
send a notification to all translators, so that they have time to
update their translations. scripts/mail-to-translators is useful for
this. It might need some tweaking and it needs to be armored for
actual sending. Running it as is to see what will happen is a good
idea, though.
Release process:
================
* Make sure that all new PO files are checked in.
* Decide whether you want to update the automake standard files
(Mainly config.guess and config.sub).
* [1.4 only] Update gpg.texi and gpgv.texi from the trunk:
make -C doc update-source-from-gnupg-2
* [1.4 and 2.0] Copy needed texinfo files from trunk.
* Run "make -C po update-po".
* Write NEWS entries and set the release date in NEWS.
* In configure.ac set "my_issvn" to "no".
* Put a "Release <version>" line into the top level ChangeLog.
* Commit all changes to GIT and push them.
* Run "./autogen.sh --force"
(--force is required for the svn magic in configure.ac and a good
idea in any case)
* Run "configure --enable-maintainer-mode".
* Run "make distcheck".
* Build and test the new tarball (best on a different machine).
* Build and test the W32 version.
* [2.x only] Using the final test build run a "make -C doc online".
* Sign the tarball
* Get the previous tarball and run "mkdiff gnupg".
You might need to set a different signature key than mine. mkdiff
has an option for this.
* If you are satisfied with the result commit a tag for the release.
* Copy the files to the FTP server
* Update the webpages - at least the file swdb.wml needs an update.
* Add a new headline to NEWS.
* Bump "my_version" up and set "my_issvn" back to "yes" in configure.ac
* Write an announcement. Update https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnupg .
Gotchas
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- If during "make distcheck" you get an error about a permission
problem moving foo.new.po to foo.po; this is caused by a check
whether the po files can be re-created. Now if the first tarball
has been created in a different top directory and if there exists a
no distributed file with the string "GNU gnupg" (e.g. a log file
from running make) you end up with different comments in the po
files. Check out /usr/lib/gettext/project-id for that silliness.
As a hack we added this string into configure.ac.