This document briefly describes how to make a installation-guide release. - First make sure to be up to date svn up - Set the release date dch -r and set the package version to the date. - Commit that svn commit and remember the commit number (say, 12345) - Prepare a bare tree svn export $PWD /tmp/manual-build - Build from it (use a machine with a lot of cores to make this fast) cd /tmp/manual-build pdebuild - Compare against a previous version to make sure we didn't mess it up completely debdiff installation-guide_2017WWWW_amd64.changes installation-guide_2017XXXX_amd64.changes - Upload the result - When ACCEPTed, Tag the commit: svn cp svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/trunk/manual@12345 svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/tags/manual/2017XXXX