Ever since commit f1cf390 (1.4.14 release), we no longer create diff files as part of the release process. These days, it is assumed that it is easier to download a fresh tarball rather than to try and use a diff file to patch an older tarball.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <[email protected]> --- [The astute list reader will probably guess that I'm trying to release 1.4.18 before 2017 :) ] ChangeLog | 5 +++++ HACKING | 6 +----- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 6c1e30a..e063f94 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2016-12-31 Eric Blake <[email protected]> + + maint: release no longer creates a diff file + * HACKING: Drop outdated steps. + 2016-12-30 Eric Blake <[email protected]> doc: drop obsolete @setcontentsaftertitlepage diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 6645626..4175f81 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -248,9 +248,6 @@ yyyy-mm-dd Name of Author <email@address> (tiny change) * Make sure you have wget installed. -* Make sure you have a copy of the previous release tarball in the build - directory. - * Make sure you have GNU make installed. * Make sure you have an up-to-date version of help2man installed. @@ -287,8 +284,7 @@ yyyy-mm-dd Name of Author <email@address> (tiny change) `git tag -d v<version>' and start again from the `git commit' step. * Run `make <target>', with target set to `stable', `alpha', or `beta' - as appropriate. This will run various additional checks and create - diff files from the previous version. + as appropriate. This will run various additional checks. * Run './build-aux/gnupload --to [dest].gnu.org:m4 --symlink-regex [files]' to create detached gpg signature and clear signed directive files, and -- 2.9.3 _______________________________________________ M4-patches mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/m4-patches
