Re: coreutils-6.12 released

[Jim Meyering]

Erik Auerswald <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 12:15:02PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Coreutils version 6.12 has been released.
>> This is a stable, bug-fix release.
>
> 'make syntax-check' fails using a fresh clone of the git repo. A
> 'make update-NEWS-hash' and commiting it's changes to cfg.mk would help.

Thanks!  Fixed.

That makes three things to do post-release.
Time to automate the process:

>From 01e6181965e1d60dd1ba483c18682d167a9c48a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 14:48:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add rules to commit three post-release changes automatically

* maint.mk (noteworthy): Define.
(emit-commit-log): Define.
(alpha beta major): Also update NEWS and cfg.mk automatically,
and commit all three changes at once.

---
 maint.mk |   15 ++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/maint.mk b/maint.mk
index 80c1bbf..91e26a4 100644
--- a/maint.mk
+++ b/maint.mk
@@ -765,6 +765,14 @@ emit_upload_commands:
        @echo =====================================
        @echo =====================================

+noteworthy = * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+define emit-commit-log
+  printf '%s\n' 'post-release administrivia' '' \
+    '* NEWS: Add header line for next release.' \
+    '* .prev-version: Record previous version.' \
+    '* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.'
+endef
+
 .PHONY: alpha beta major
 alpha beta major: $(local-check) writable-files
        test $@ = major                                         \
@@ -780,6 +788,7 @@ alpha beta major: $(local-check) writable-files
        fi
        $(MAKE) -s emit_upload_commands RELEASE_TYPE=$@
        echo $(VERSION) > $(prev_version_file)
-       $(VC) commit -m \
-         '* $(prev_version_file): Record previous version.' \
-         $(prev_version_file)
+       $(MAKE) update-NEWS-hash
+       perl -pi -e '$$. == 3 and print "$(noteworthy)\n\n\n"' NEWS
+       $(emit-commit-log) > .ci-msg
+       $(VC) commit -F .ci-msg
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