devtools/README.md

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