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| -rw-r--r-- | admin/make-tarball.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt index fc7f81f0c28..50183f75561 100644 --- a/admin/make-tarball.txt +++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt | |||
| @@ -28,14 +28,10 @@ General steps (for each step, check for possible errors): | |||
| 28 | M-: (require 'authors) RET | 28 | M-: (require 'authors) RET |
| 29 | M-x authors RET | 29 | M-x authors RET |
| 30 | 30 | ||
| 31 | There is almost guaranteed to be an "*Authors Errors*" buffer with | 31 | If there is an "*Authors Errors*" buffer, address the issues. |
| 32 | problems caused by certain bad ChangeLog entries. You can ignore | 32 | If there was a ChangeLog typo, fix it. If a file was deleted or |
| 33 | the very old ones (eg lisp/erc has a lot). If there are errors | 33 | renamed, consider adding an appropriate entry to authors-ignored-files, |
| 34 | related to new entries (especially entries that are new since the | 34 | authors-valid-file-names, or authors-renamed-files-alist. |
| 35 | last pretest), see if you can fix them. If there was a ChangeLog | ||
| 36 | typo, fix it. If a file was deleted or renamed, consider adding | ||
| 37 | an appropriate entry to authors-ignored-files, authors-valid-file-names, | ||
| 38 | or authors-renamed-files-alist. | ||
| 39 | 35 | ||
| 40 | If necessary, repeat M-x authors after making those changes. | 36 | If necessary, repeat M-x authors after making those changes. |
| 41 | Save the "*Authors*" buffer as etc/AUTHORS. | 37 | Save the "*Authors*" buffer as etc/AUTHORS. |