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@@ -9,21 +9,14 @@ However, this is up to whoever is driving the feature in question. Follow these steps to release a new version of libdrm: - 1) Ensure that there are no local, uncommitted/unpushed - modifications. You're probably in a good state if both "git diff - HEAD" and "git log master..origin/master" give no output. - - 2) Bump the version number in configure.ac. We seem to have settled + 1) Bump the version number in configure.ac. We seem to have settled for 2.4.x as the versioning scheme for libdrm, so just bump the micro version. - 3) Run autoconf and then re-run ./configure so the build system + 2) Run autoconf and then re-run ./configure so the build system picks up the new version number. - 4) (optional step, release.sh will make distcheck for you, but it can be - heart warming to verify that make distcheck passes) - - Verify that the code passes "make distcheck". Running "make + 3) Verify that the code passes "make distcheck". Running "make distcheck" should result in no warnings or errors and end with a message of the form: @@ -36,20 +29,13 @@ Follow these steps to release a new version of libdrm: Make sure that the version number reported by distcheck and in the tarball names matches the number you bumped to in configure.ac. - 5) Commit the configure.ac change and make an annotated tag for that - commit with the version number of the release as the name and a - message of "libdrm X.Y.Z". For example, for the 2.4.16 release - the command is: - - git tag -a 2.4.16 -m "libdrm 2.4.16" - - 6) Push the commit and tag by saying + 4) Push the updated master branch with the bumped version number: - git push --tags origin master + git push origin master assuming the remote for the upstream libdrm repo is called origin. - 7) Use the release.sh script from the xorg/util/modular repo to + 5) Use the release.sh script from the xorg/util/modular repo to upload the tarballs to the freedesktop.org download area and create an announce email template. The script takes one argument: the path to the libdrm checkout. So, if a checkout of modular is |