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1HOWTO-RELEASE:
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3Notes on releasing. You will need appropriate autoconf, automake and libtool
4utilities to release a package.
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61. Commit any unsaved changes.
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82. "make clean"
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103. Create html/vX.X.html.  Take ChangeLog entries and html-ify in there.
11   Easist thing to do is take html/vX.(X-1).html and use it as a template.
12   Add that file to the list of EXTRA_DIST files in the html/Makefile.am.
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143.5. Update html/index.html to refer to this new page as the current release.
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164. Increment version in configure.ac.  Put 'alpha' or 'beta' after
17   the version, if applicable.
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19   eg.
20   3.5.7
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22   3.5.8beta
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24   Version should be updated in two places: in the second argument of the
25   AC_INIT macro and in LIBTIFF_xxx_VERSION variables.
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275. make release -- this will update "RELEASE-DATE" and "VERSION" in the top
28   level dir, and libtiff/tiffvers.h.
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306. Please verify that the version info in RELEASE-DATE, VERSION and
31   libtiff/tiffvers.h is right.
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337. sh configure; make; make distcheck (to test).
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358. make distclean
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379. cvs commit
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3910. cvs tag Release-v3-5-7 (or the appropriate name for the release)
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4111. make dist
42    Two files with names tiff-version.tar.gz and tiff-version.zip will
43    be created in the top level package directory.
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4511. Copy to ftp.remotesensing.org ftp site.
46    scp tiff-*.tar.gz ftp.remotesensing.org:/ftp/remotesensing/pub/libtiff
47    scp tiff-*.zip ftp.remotesensing.org:/ftp/remotesensing/pub/libtiff
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4912. Announce to list, [email protected]]
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5114. Update libtiff page on freshmeat with new version announcement.
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