From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:05:09 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: RELEASE-PROCEDURE: mention an initial working build
X-Git-Tag: curl-8_8_0~341
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4ad9d2970507f6029b1c0af713e0225b9b5701b7;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git

RELEASE-PROCEDURE: mention an initial working build

This is the step that was not done and caused the 8.7.0 mishap (it
lacked the correctly generated hugehelp file).

Remove the mention of the copyright script as this is verified by a CI
job these days: the REUSE one.

Closes #13216
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diff --git a/docs/RELEASE-PROCEDURE.md b/docs/RELEASE-PROCEDURE.md
index e48a4d28a2..4f662ce868 100644
--- a/docs/RELEASE-PROCEDURE.md
+++ b/docs/RELEASE-PROCEDURE.md
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ curl release procedure - how to do a release
 in the source code repo
 -----------------------
 
-- run `./scripts/copyright.pl` and correct possible omissions
+- do a *regular build* with a sensible build config to make sure the
+  `src/tool_hugehelp.c` file etc is correctly generated
 
 - edit `RELEASE-NOTES` to be accurate