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authorAkim Demaille <akim@lrde.epita.fr>2012-07-06 10:58:26 +0200
committerAkim Demaille <akim@lrde.epita.fr>2012-07-06 11:00:57 +0200
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downloadbison-60aa04a236004d3d03f00aeaf07b643a52ef0760.tar.gz
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/maint'
* origin/maint: maint: update release instructions maint: post-release administrivia version 2.5.90 build: fix gen-ChangeLog call. gnulib: update. tests: fix SKIP_IF for Java. api.prefix: incompatible with %name-prefix. api.prefix: strengthen the tests and fix push-parsers. skeletons: style changes. NEWS: minor changes. api.prefix: improve the documentation for YYDEBUG. gnulib: update. Conflicts: NEWS cfg.mk data/bison.m4 doc/bison.texi m4/.gitignore tests/calc.at tests/headers.at
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occurrences of PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR in configure.ac.
** Update NEWS, commit and tag.
-See do-release-commit-and-tag in README-release.
+See do-release-commit-and-tag in README-release. For a while, we used
+beta names such as "2.6_rc1". Now that we use gnulib in the release
+procedure, we must use "2.5.90", which has the additional benefit of
+being properly sorted in "git tag -l".
** make alpha, beta, or stable
See README-release.