How to release a new metche version ?

Upstream release

Requirements

sudo apt-get install sp docbook2x docbook-xsl docbook docbook-to-man

How-to

• in upstream/trunk, update the Changelog file
• tag the upstream release ; svn COPY can not be done via https (known problem), so this has to be done via http :

$ svn copy http://poivron.org/dev/svn/metche/upstream/trunk http://poivron.org/dev/svn/metche/upstream/tags/metche-N.M

• build the upstream tarball :

     $ svn export http://poivron.org/dev/svn/metche/upstream/tags/metche-N.M /tmp/metche-N.M
     $ cd /tmp/metche-N.M
     $ make ; make clean
     $ rm metche-manpage.sgml  # No reason to ship the manpage source in tarball
     $ cd /tmp/
     $ tar cvzf metche-N.M.tar.gz metche-N.M
  

• ask Lunar to upload the upstream tarball
• add a link to the upstream tarball on the wiki frontpage

Debian package release

• Get the last upstream into packaging repository:

     $ mkdir tarballs
     $ (cd tarballs && wget http://poivron.org/dev/metche/files/metche-N.M.tar.gz)
     $ ln -s metche-N.M.tar.gz tarballs/metche_N.M.orig.tar.gz
     $ svn co http://poivron.org/dev/svn/metche/debian/trunk
     $ cd trunk
     $ svn-upgrade ../tarballs/metche-N.M.tar.gz
  

• BEGIN
• make changes, fix Debian bugs, etc.
• use debchange (dch) to update debian/changelog (add pertinent upstream Changelog information along the way)
• Use "svn commit" to send changes to SVN repository.
• Use "svn-buildpackage --svn-builder=pdebuild" to build the package with pbuilder.
• Run lintian (from unstable).
• Run linda (from unstable).
• Run piuparts.
• Run debdiff.
• Run "less *.deb"
• Fix detected bugs in Debian packaging
• REPEAT.
• When everything is ready: "svn-buildpackage --svn-builder=pdebuild --svn-tag".
• Upload everything to poivron, and ask micah for an upload.