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+These are more notes for myself than for anyone else's benefit, but
+I can never remember what all the steps are, so noting them here.
+
+Source changes:
+
+- Add stanza to NEWS file
+- Ensure setup.py version number is bumped
+- Fix the actual problems (updating NEWS and/or CREDITS as we go)
+- Test with dev/chroot-test/run-test
+- Ensure year in README is up to date
+- Switch to debian
+- Merge in default
+- Update Standards-Version
+- dev/debian-build/dbuild
+- dev/chroot-test/run-test
+- When all is well, tag default and debian
+- dev/debian-build/dbuild_release
+- dev/chroot-test/run-test
+
+Post source changes:
+
+- "hg push; hg push public" (also during development)
+- Mail files in build/debian to Debian sponsor
+- Copy orig tarball into
+  ~/hg/lshift-web-personal/personal/paul/mercurial-server/
+- Pull, update, add, push for lshift-web-personal
+- Update ~/hg/lshift-web/site/mercurial-server.xml
+- Push
+- Test that web page works.
+- Make a blog post
+- Post to the mercurial mailing list