Re: PATCH: Bump version on mainline

[Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>]

Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:

> Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>>
>>>I've updated the crontab (both in maintainer_scripts and on gcc.gnu.org).  I
>>>don't understand the instructions about building the next snapshot manually
>>>and adjusting references that appear.  (Whatever this task is, it seems like
>>>the kind of thing that we ought to be able to automate better.)
>> The snapshot/release script, when generating snapshots, expects to
>> find the date of the last snapshot in files such as
>> .snapshot_date-4.0.  For the first snapshot after the version number
>> changes, there is no previous 4.1 snapshot, no .snapshot_date-4.1
>> file, and the diffs should be generated relative to the 4.0 snapshot
>> from before the branch.  This is something Gerald has done
>> previously.
>
> Gerald, is this something you would be willing to do again?  If not, let 
> me know, and I'll try it.

FYI: Gerald is on vacation for the next two weeks - AFAIK without
internet access, so that he can't help directly,

Andreas
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