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authorJesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>2011-06-30 20:40:54 -0400
committerJesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>2011-06-30 20:40:54 -0400
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Change the example in the Changes file to be more generic.
Remove the releng step which required altering the Changes file with a meaningless version bump
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@@ -339,22 +339,6 @@ release, this would be 5.13.11).
For BLEAD-POINT releases, it needs to refer to the previous BLEAD-POINT
release (so for 5.15.3 this would be 5.15.2).
-
-=head3 update Changes
-
-Update the F<Changes> file to contain the git log command which would show
-all the changes in this release. You will need assume the existence of a
-not-yet created tag for the forthcoming release; e.g.
-
- git log ... perl-5.10.0..perl-5.12.0
-
-Due to warts in the perforce-to-git migration, some branches require extra
-exclusions to avoid other branches being pulled in. Make sure you have the
-correct incantation: replace the not-yet-created tag with C<HEAD> and see
-if C<git log> produces roughly the right number of commits across roughly the
-right time period (you may find C<git log --pretty=oneline | wc> useful).
-
-
=head3 Check more build configurations
Check some more build configurations. The check that setuid builds and