Release checklist

DCCL Release Checklist:

• Merge all relevant pull requests into version branch (e.g. 3.0)

• Check build and unit tests

• Update version, release date (and soversion, if relevant) in CMakeLists.txt

• Update release notes in release.txt

• Commit and push updated version, etc.

• Click "Draft a new release" at https://github.com/GobySoft/dccl/releases

• Grab the source tarball for the release using git archive:

    TAG=3.0.7_rc1
    RELEASE=$(echo $TAG | sed 's/_/~/')
    git archive --prefix=dccl3-$RELEASE/ -o dccl3-$RELEASE.tar.gz $TAG
  

• Build the Debian source package

    mv dccl3-$RELEASE.tar.gz ~/deb/src/dccl3_$RELEASE.orig.tar.gz
    cd ~/deb/src
    tar xfz dccl3_$RELEASE.orig.tar.gz 
    cd dccl3-$RELEASE
    git clone [email protected]:GobySoft/dccl-debian.git -b 3.0 debian
    cd debian
    dch -i
    # edit release notes for one of the Ubuntu LTS releases
    debuild -S -sa
  

• Edit changelog for the other Ubuntu LTS releases

    emacs changelog 
    # change release name and release distro
    debuild -S -sd
  

• Upload to PPA

    dput ppa:dccl-dev/ppa dccl3_*.changes