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authorvlefevre <vlefevre@280ebfd0-de03-0410-8827-d642c229c3f4>2017-09-08 10:07:03 +0000
committervlefevre <vlefevre@280ebfd0-de03-0410-8827-d642c229c3f4>2017-09-08 10:07:03 +0000
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[doc/README.dev] "To make a release": Added a warning to check the
papersize of the generated dvi and ps files, which may be incorrect (bug in texinfo(?) reported as Debian bug 874632). git-svn-id: svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/mpfr/trunk@11733 280ebfd0-de03-0410-8827-d642c229c3f4
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@@ -335,7 +335,9 @@ To make a release (for the MPFR team):
9) * For the release itself (not the release candidates):
Create a web page for the MPFR release and add the documentation
(for mpfr.html, use "makeinfo --html --no-split mpfr.texi" from
- the doc directory).
+ the doc directory). WARNING! Make sure that the dvi and ps files
+ have an a4 papersize; there's a bug in texinfo(?):
+ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874632
Upload the tarballs and the signatures to the MPFR web server
(via a svn working copy) and to InriaForge.
Prepare the files for the GNU FTP site with the gnu-sigdir script