RELEASE.md

Upstream

• update version in configure.in

• update first line of ChangeLog

• commit

• create the tarball:

    git tag -s backupninja-$VERSION
    ./autogen.sh
    ./configure
    make dist

• compare the content of the generated tarball with the content of the previous one

• mv backupninja-$VERSION.tar.gz ../tarballs/

• cleanup: make distclean

• sign the release:

    cd ../tarballs
    gpg --armor --detach-sign backupninja-$VERSION.tar.gz

• upload the generated tarball and detached signature to https://0xacab.org/riseuplabs/backupninja/

• push master branch and tags

• announce on the backupninja mailing-list

Debian

    ln -s backupninja-$VERSION.tar.gz backupninja_$VERSION.orig.tar.gz
    cd ../git
    git checkout upstream
    git merge backupninja-$VERSION
    git checkout debian
    git-import-orig ../tarballs/backupninja-$VERSION.tar.gz
    git-dch --auto
    dch -e
    git commit debian/changelog -m "Releasing backupninja ($DEBIAN_VERSION) to Debian unstable"
    git tag -s -m "Releasing backupninja ($DEBIAN_VERSION) to Debian unstable" backupninja_debian/$DEBIAN_VERSION
    git-buildpackage

• push the debian branch
• publish the source package somewhere
• ask someone listed in the @Uploaders@ control field to review and upload
• push the tag, once uploaded to Debian