How to make a release

Releasing

Pacstall

1. Make sure that the release notes are drafted. This usually includes selecting a name and a color.

Patch	Minor	Major
Shade	New color	New color

2. Create Pac art for the release.
3. Edit the manpage template and update it with any information.
4. Create a branch to your fork from develop.
   • Edit pacstall and update the color code (in RGB), the version number, and name.
   • Create a file in misc/ called pacstall.md, and copy paste the manpage template into it. Run the command at the bottom of the manpage template page.
   • Commit it with the commit messages just like you would do an update on pacstall-programs (upd(pacstall): old -> new) with the backticks.
   • Push it.
   • Merge it into develop.
5. Go to the cloned repo (git clone git@github.com:pacstall/pacstall.git) and pull from develop.
6. git checkout master.
7. git merge develop && git push origin master.
8. Publish the release draft.
9. Create the pacstall deb and attach it with the name pacstall-${version}.deb.
10. If any features/deprecations happened, look in all our docs and update them accordingly.

Docker

1. Create the new docker by going into repo-maintain, editing the Dockerfile description, then running:

docker build --no-cache -t pacstall .
docker tag pacstall ghcr.io/pacstall/pacstall:latest
docker tag pacstall ghcr.io/pacstall/pacstall:<version>
docker push ghcr.io/pacstall/pacstall:latest
docker push ghcr.io/pacstall/pacstall:<version>

2. Push the updated Dockerfile with the same commit used to update pacstall.

Discord

1. Make an announcement linking to the release page.