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authorSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2015-01-31 15:33:16 +0000
committerSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2015-01-31 15:33:16 +0000
commit79e4d7054794042f280f6acec6f3f71180d45b04 (patch)
tree06d53ec11b261ab2a09288dd5674f09b28dd1360
parent66daea26d498bc70d7b10240d0704ad09344f712 (diff)
downloadperl-79e4d7054794042f280f6acec6f3f71180d45b04.tar.gz
RMG - Put all version-bump related information about INSTALL in one place
Also correct the phrase referred to by the RMG to match what INSTALL actualy says, and change the wording of one section of INSTALL to match the other. (cherry picked from commit 2f05d2097c6cf5e9fa8a7473b06bc8c21aeb9044)
-rw-r--r--Porting/release_managers_guide.pod10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
index 6a1e8bfacf..b5224b2fdd 100644
--- a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
+++ b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
@@ -388,8 +388,7 @@ Use git status and git diff to select changes you want to keep.
Be particularly careful with F<INSTALL>, which contains a mixture of
C<5.10.0>-type strings, some of which need bumping on every release, and
some of which need to be left unchanged.
-The line in F<INSTALL> about "is binary incompatible with" requires a
-correct choice of earlier version to declare incompatibility with.
+See below in L<"update INSTALL"> for more details.
When doing a BLEAD-POINT or BLEAD-FINAL release, also make sure the
C<PERL_API_*> constants in F<patchlevel.h> are in sync with the version
@@ -434,8 +433,11 @@ version number.
=head3 update INSTALL
-Review and update INSTALL to account for the change in version number;
-in particular, the "Coexistence with earlier versions of perl 5" section.
+Review and update INSTALL to account for the change in version number.
+The lines in F<INSTALL> about "is not binary compatible with" may require a
+correct choice of earlier version to declare incompatibility with. These are
+in the "Changes and Incompatibilities" and "Coexistence with earlier versions
+of perl 5" sections.
Be particularly careful with the section "Upgrading from 5.X.Y or earlier".
The "X.Y" needs to be changed to the most recent version that we are