apteryx pushed a commit to branch master
in repository maintenance.
commit 68ff163e2e1a6c290a0e06a1aba18fdafc9524f1
Author: Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun Apr 18 10:08:39 2021 -0400
doc: Document some requirements of the update-NEWS target.
* doc/release.org (Update the list of new and updated packages):
Mention that some sections are expected to already exist.
---
doc/release.org | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/release.org b/doc/release.org
index 5637985..5011cba 100644
--- a/doc/release.org
+++ b/doc/release.org
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ This target needs requires a checkout of
<git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix/maintenance.git>, which is where we
store the list of package/version pairs of each Guix release.
+The update-NEWS script expects some sections to already exist such as
+'*** new packages' and '*** package updates' that are to be updated.
+
** Commit the new list of packages in maintenance.git
Running “make update-NEWS” creates a ‘data/packages-X.Y.Z.txt’ file in
