Subject: Re: bug#25613: Temporary NEWS markup in still RC

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2017 23:33:16 -0500

Nicolas Petton wrote:

> No, I don't.  However, I think it'd be good to update make-tarball.txt
> with some documentation for this check, otherwise I'll just keep
> forgetting about it.

It's documented in admin/release-process section "To be done shortly
before release". There are various things that aren't specifically to do
with making the tarfile that need doing.