added notes about preparing a release.

diff --git a/utils/preparing-release b/utils/preparing-release
index 6fc97719bcd62c81f177e220ffb62b6d631a5c6e..f2a99e531002bea5398f70cc9b1b1c266b0abfb9 100644 (file)
--- a/utils/preparing-release
+++ b/utils/preparing-release
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@
 
     git tag -s -m 'Tagging Monkeysphere $whatever' monkeysphere_$whatever
 
+ * run commands from make debian-package by hand (?) so that it
+   doesn't trigger another tarball rebuild.  Make sure the package
+   passes lintian checks, installs, upgrades, removes reasonably, etc.
+
+ * debsign -k$GPGID ../*.changes
+
  * create debian-specific version tag:
 
     git tag -s -m 'Tagging Monkeysphere $whatever-1' monkeysphere_$whatever-1