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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7c6764e --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +# Devtools - development tools for Arch Linux + +This repository contains tools for the Arch Linux distribution for building +and maintaining official repository packages. + +## Patches + +Patches can be send to arch-projects@archlinux.org or via a pull request on +Github. When sending patches to the mailing list make sure to set a valid +subjectprefix otherwise the email is denied by mailman. Git can be configured +as following. + +``` +git config format.subjectprefix 'devtools] [PATCH' +``` + +## Releasing + +1. bump the version in the Makefile +2. Commit everything as ```Version $(date + "%Y%m%d")``` +3. Create a new tag ```git tag -s $(date +"%Y%m%d")``` +4. Push changes +5. Upload the source tarball with ```make dist upload``` +6. Update the package |