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authorGlenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>2021-03-29 08:26:25 -0700
committerGlenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>2021-03-29 08:26:25 -0700
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bcc4cc3362 Doc fixes for 'face-foreground' and 'face-background'. bf6442fafd ; * admin/make-tarball.txt: Minor addition to the Web page... 38b127d32e * admin/admin.el (set-version): Handle malformed NEWS markup. 0d7e2a993e admin.el fix for bug#47394 fdec444758 ; * etc/NEWS: Fix typo. 1e6ca2765f ; * admin/make-tarball.txt: Another minor addition. # Conflicts: # etc/NEWS
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@@ -250,8 +250,12 @@ General steps (for each step, check for possible errors):
because replies that invariably are not announcements also get
sent out as if they were.)
-12. After a release, update the Emacs pages as below.
+12. After a release, update the Emacs pages as described below.
+13. Bump the Emacs version on the release branch.
+ If the released version was XX.Y, use 'set-version' from
+ admin/admin.el to bump the version on the release branch to
+ XX.Y.50. Commit the changes.
UPDATING THE EMACS WEB PAGES AFTER A RELEASE
@@ -271,5 +275,14 @@ page for about a month, then comment it again.
Regenerate the various manuals in manual/.
The scripts admin/make-manuals and admin/upload-manuals summarize the process.
+If you have Texinfo installed locally, make-manuals might fail if it
+cannot find epsf.tex. In that case define in the environment
+
+ TEXINPUTS=:/path/to/texinfo-tree/doc
+
+where /path/to/texinfo-tree is the absolute file name of the top-level
+directory where you have the Texinfo source tree. Then re-run
+make-manuals.
+
Browsing <https://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?root=emacs> is one
way to check for any files that still need updating.