Fix gdkx include path

[~andy/gtk] / docs / RELEASE-HOWTO

diff --git a/docs/RELEASE-HOWTO b/docs/RELEASE-HOWTO
index e724683172b3ccbb08cb4be03fe44d1900848ab1..5cbd476f3edeccfdc1d43f02777bbce7154fa77b 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/RELEASE-HOWTO
+++ b/docs/RELEASE-HOWTO
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ dependencies:
 * gtk-doc
 * docbook-utils
 Without those packages make distcheck will *not* pass.
+Make sure that gtk-doc is the latest released version.
 
 
  0) Go back to a pristine working directory. With git, this works:
@@ -25,16 +26,21 @@ Without those packages make distcheck will *not* pass.
     committers, etc. Anybody who is mentioned in ChangeLog gets
     credits, but only real names, not email addresses or nicknames.
 
- 3) In particular, if this is a major, stable, release, verify that
+ 3) Update the pot files and commit the changes:
+
+    make -C po gtk30.pot
+    make -C po-properties gtk30-properties.pot
+
+ 4) In particular, if this is a major, stable, release, verify that
     README.in contains the relevant release notes and that the
     required versions of dependencies in INSTALL.in are in sync
-    with configure.in.
+    with configure.ac.
 
- 4) Verify that the version in configure.in has been bumped after the last
+ 5) Verify that the version in configure.ac has been bumped after the last
     release. (Note that this is critical, a slip-up here will cause the
     soname to change).
 
- 5) Make sure that make check is happy (If you don't do it here, make distcheck
+ 6) Make sure that make check is happy (If you don't do it here, make distcheck
     will also catch it, but it is kind of disheartening to see make distcheck
     fail due to an extraneous symbol after watching it build the docs for an
     hour...).
@@ -48,7 +54,7 @@ Without those packages make distcheck will *not* pass.
       using a function from a different library, which is not yet allowed
       by the filter in pltcheck.sh
 
- 6) If this is a devel release, make sure that the docs for new symbols
+ 7) If this is a devel release, make sure that the docs for new symbols
     are in good shape. Look at the -unused.txt files and add stuff found
     there to the corresponding -sections.txt file. Look at the
     -undocumented.txt files and see if there is anything in there that
@@ -57,12 +63,12 @@ Without those packages make distcheck will *not* pass.
     Since: tags, and that there is an index in the main -docs.sgml for
     the next stable version.
 
- 7) make distcheck
+ 8) make distcheck
 
- 8) Fix broken stuff found by 7), repeat
+ 9) Fix broken stuff found by 8), commit changes: git commit -a, repeat.
 
- 9) Commit all changes: git commit -a. You will have a bunch of po file
-    changes, NEWS and maybe some doc changes too
+10) Once distcheck succeeds, verify that the tree is clean: git diff should
+    come up empty.
 
 10) Now you've got the tarball. Check that the tarball size looks
     reasonable compared to previous releases. If the size goes down
@@ -77,7 +83,7 @@ Without those packages make distcheck will *not* pass.
 
     git push origin refs/tags/2.12.10
 
-13) Bump the version number in configure.in and commit and push this change
+13) Bump the version number in configure.ac and commit and push this change
 
 14) Upload the tarball to master.gnome.org and run install-module to transfer
     it to download.gnome.org. If you don't have an account on master.gnome.org,