standards: Managing Releases

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1 7 The Release Process
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1 Making a release is more than just bundling up your source files in a
1 tar file and putting it up for FTP. You should set up your software so
1 that it can be configured to run on a variety of systems.  Your Makefile
1 should conform to the GNU standards described below, and your directory
1 layout should also conform to the standards discussed below.  Doing so
1 makes it easy to include your package into the larger framework of all
1 GNU software.
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· Configuration               How configuration of GNU packages should work.
· Makefile Conventions        Makefile conventions.
· Releases                    Making releases
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