Goby Release Checklist:

• Merge all relevant pull requests into version branch (e.g. 2.1)

• Check build and unit tests

• Update version, release date (and soversion, if relevant) in CMakeLists.txt

• Update release notes in release.txt

• Commit and push updated version, etc.

• Click "Draft a new release" at https://github.com/GobySoft/goby/releases

• Grab the source tarball for the release using git archive:

    RELEASE=2.1.2
    git archive --prefix=goby2-$RELEASE/ -o goby2-$RELEASE.tar.gz $RELEASE
  

• Build the Debian source package

    mv goby2-$RELEASE.tar.gz ~/deb/src/goby2_$RELEASE.orig.tar.gz
    cd ~/deb/src
    tar xfz goby2_$RELEASE.orig.tar.gz 
    cd goby2-$RELEASE
    git clone git@github.com:GobySoft/goby-debian.git -b 2.0 debian
    cd debian
    dch -i
    # edit release notes for one of the Ubuntu LTS releases
    debuild -S -sa
  

• Edit changelog for the other Ubuntu LTS releases

    emacs changelog 
    # change release name and release distro
    debuild -S -sd
  

• Upload to PPA

    dput ppa:goby-dev/ppa goby2_2.1.2-0gobydev6~ubuntu12.04.1_source.changes