RELEASING: Add a (manual!) step to create a debian/changelog entry

I'd like to have this be fully automated in the future, but for now,
it's an extra step.

diff --git a/RELEASING b/RELEASING
index fbee322a59bf7a63e0c6f046d9f297b1d04ee329..99c6d79ecb86812471fab6adefe795ce42ace68a 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASING
+++ b/RELEASING
@@ -35,7 +35,21 @@ repository. From here, there are just a few steps to release:
 
        Commit this change, if any.
 
-3) Run "make VERSION=X.Y release" which will perform the following steps:
+3) Create an entry for the new release in debian/changelog
+
+       The syntax of this file is tightly restricted, but the
+       available emacs mode (see the dpkg-dev-el package helps).  The
+       entries here will be the Debian-relevant single-line
+       description of changes from the NEWS entry. And the version
+       must match the version in the next step.
+
+       Commit this change.
+
+       XXX: It would be great if this step were automated as part of
+       release, (taking entries from NEWS and the version from the
+       VERSION, and creating a new commit).
+
+4) Run "make VERSION=X.Y release" which will perform the following steps:
 
    For the X.Y version, we'll generally just increment Y. But for
    major milestones of usability we're increment X as well.
@@ -58,7 +72,7 @@ repository. From here, there are just a few steps to release:
        * Push that tag
        * Provide some text for the release announcement (see below).
 
-4) Send a message to notmuch@notmuchmail.org to announce the release.
+5) Send a message to notmuch@notmuchmail.org to announce the release.
 
        Use the text provided from "make release" above, (if for some
        reason you lose this message, "make release-message" prints