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@@ -277,9 +277,6 @@ yyyy-mm-dd Name of Author <email@address> (tiny change)
* Make sure you have rsync 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.
@@ -317,9 +314,8 @@ yyyy-mm-dd Name of Author <email@address> (tiny change)
* Run `make distcheck'. If there are any problems, fix them, then run
`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.
+* Run `make <target>', with target set to `stable', `alpha', or `beta'
+ as appropriate. This will run various additional checks.
* Run './build-aux/gnupload --to [dest].gnu.org:m4 [files]' to create
detached gpg signature and clear signed directive files, and upload