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+Release Reminders
+=================
+
+ * To create a source release, do an export from the version control
+   system to a directory called qpdf-version.  From the parent of that
+   directory, run make_dist with the directory as an argument.  For
+   internally testing releases, you can run make_dist with the
+   --no-tests option.
+
+ * Make sure version numbers are consistent in the following
+   locations:
+
+     configure.ac
+     qpdf.spec
+     qpdf/qpdf.cc
+     manual/qpdf-manual.xml
+
+   make_dist does this automatically.
+
+ * Each year, update copyright notices.  Just search for Copyright.
+   Last updated: 2008.
+
+ * To construct a source distribution from a pristine checkout,
+   make_release does the following.
+
+    autoconf
+    ./configure --enable-doc-maintenance
+    make build_manual
+    make distclean
+
+ * Remember to update documentation in the "files" subdirectory of the
+   website on sourceforge.net.
+
+General Build Stuff
+===================
+
+QPDF supports autoconf and libtool but does not use automake.  In
+addition, there is no header file generated by autoconf.  The only
+file distributed with the qpdf source distribution that is not a
+controlled file is "configure", and it is generated by just running
+"autoconf".  There is no need to run autoreconf, automake, autoheader,
+aclocal, or any other autotools programs beyond autoconf.
+
+A small handful of additional files have been taken from autotools
+programs.  These should probably be updated from time to time.
+
+ * config.guess, config.sub, ltmain.sh: these were created by running
+   libtoolize -c.  To update, run libtoolize -f -c or remove the files
+   and rerun libtoolize.
+
+ * Other files copied as indicated:
+
+   cp /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 aclocal.m4
+   cp /usr/share/automake-1.10/install-sh .
+   cp /usr/share/automake-1.10/mkinstalldirs .
+
+The entire contents of aclocal.m4 came from libtool.m4.  If we had
+some additional local parts, we could manually combine them or we
+could run aclocal.  For now, the simple copy statement above is
+sufficient.
+
+If building or editing documentation, configure with
+--enable-doc-maintenance.  This will ensure that all tools or files
+required to validate and build documentation are available.
+
+If you want to run make maintainer-clean or make distclean and you
+haven't run ./configure, you can pass CLEAN=1 to make on the command
+line to prevent it from complaining about configure not having been
+run.