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ReleasingProcess

Philippe Teuwen edited this page 2017-04-04 10:49:13 +02:00

http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Updating-version-info.html

• Finalise human-readable changelog! (ChangeLog)
• Report any important code changes (NEWS.md)
• Bump version in CMakeLists.txt
• Bump version in configure.ac
• Commit all these files

export LIBNFC_RELEASE=1.7.1
git add NEWS.md ChangeLog configure.ac CMakeLists.txt
git commit -m"Prepare $LIBNFC_RELEASE version"
git push

• Check tarball distribution:

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/nfc-tools/libnfc.git
cd libnfc
autoreconf -is
./configure
make distcheck
cd ..
rm -rf libnfc/

• Add a git tag

git tag -s libnfc-$LIBNFC_RELEASE -m"libnfc $LIBNFC_RELEASE"
git push origin libnfc-$LIBNFC_RELEASE

• Build tarball archive

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/nfc-tools/libnfc.git
cd libnfc
sh make_release.sh

• Upload archives to https://github.com/nfc-tools/libnfc/releases

• Announce on https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nfc-tools (Mouhaha ;-) )