Re: How are "official" tarballs built?

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico nuclecu unam mx>]

>  In some number of days, Miguel is going to announce something
>  like "The 0.99.9 Belligerently Beautiful Bison release of GNOME
>  is now available ...", and there will be new gnome-foo-0.99.9.tar.gz
>  files on ftp.gnome.org and mirrors.  How are these tarballs built?

(Hmmm, not a bad name...)

The tarballs are the result of

	1) make distcheck

	2) make dist, and then try to build the resulting tarball by
           hand.

(2) is required because (1) does not always pick up all packaging
errors.

This is for the packages that use Automake, which thankfully is most
of the ones we have.  Packages which don't, like mc, have a different
process.

  Federico