Commit this change, if any.
-3) Run "make VERSION=X.Y release" which will perform the following steps:
+3) Create an entry for the new release in debian/changelog
+
+ The syntax of this file is tightly restricted, but the
+ available emacs mode (see the dpkg-dev-el package helps). The
+ entries here will be the Debian-relevant single-line
+ description of changes from the NEWS entry. And the version
+ must match the version in the next step.
+
+ Commit this change.
+
+ XXX: It would be great if this step were automated as part of
+ release, (taking entries from NEWS and the version from the
+ VERSION, and creating a new commit).
+
+4) Run "make VERSION=X.Y release" which will perform the following steps:
For the X.Y version, we'll generally just increment Y. But for
major milestones of usability we're increment X as well.
* Push that tag
* Provide some text for the release announcement (see below).
-4) Send a message to notmuch@notmuchmail.org to announce the release.
+5) Send a message to notmuch@notmuchmail.org to announce the release.
Use the text provided from "make release" above, (if for some
reason you lose this message, "make release-message" prints