[SCM] Debian packaging of dh-make-perl branch, master, updated. debian/0.74-1-1-g5c767f3

[Damyan Ivanov]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 5c767f35156d06e102f378fe764d53e7961c2dfd
Author: Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org>
Date:   Tue Sep 13 10:13:54 2011 +0300

    document the release process

diff --git a/HOWTO.release b/HOWTO.release
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+* run
+    make orig
+  this will create ../dh-make-perl_$VERSION.orig.tar.gz and
+  ../DhMakePerl-$VERSION.tar.gz (hardlinked to each other).
+
+* build the package as usual and watch for failing tests
+
+* apply the usual quality checks, e.g. lintian
+
+* make sure Changes is populated for the new release. Good source of changes to
+  include there is debian/changelog and/or git logs
+
+  (assuming debian/changelog is already updated with the list of changes)
+
+* if everything seems ok, run
+    dch -r
+  and build again
+
+* upload
+  - ../dh-make-perl_$VERSION.orig.tar.gz to alioth, naming the release $VERSION
+  - ../DhMakePerl-$VERSION.tar.gz to PAUSE, e.g. with cpan-upload
+
+* tag
+    debcommit -a -r
+
+* push
+    git push origin master debian/$VERSION-1
+
+* serve yourself a piece of cake :)

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Debian packaging of dh-make-perl