From c491d9f6af8dd2ecfbc5bd70b2054e03ac2521ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jay Berkenbilt Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 16:39:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Draw attention to linux binary not being end-user facing (fixes #534) --- README-maintainer | 10 ++++++++++ README-what-to-download.md | 2 +- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README-maintainer b/README-maintainer index 40a3f949..0d4f8599 100644 --- a/README-maintainer +++ b/README-maintainer @@ -314,6 +314,16 @@ done If needed, go onto github and make any manual updates such as indicating a pre-release, adding release notes, etc. +Template for release notes: + +``` +This is qpdf version x.y.z. (Brief description) + +For a full list of changes from previous releases, please see the [release notes](http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/files/qpdf-manual.html#ref.release-notes). See also [README-what-to-download](./README-what-to-download.md) for details on the available source and binary distributions. +``` + + + # Publish release gcurl -XPOST $url -d'{"draft": false}' diff --git a/README-what-to-download.md b/README-what-to-download.md index f9ee09d7..3fbbbef9 100644 --- a/README-what-to-download.md +++ b/README-what-to-download.md @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Virtually all Linux distributions include packages for qpdf. There is also a PPA * `qpdf--x86_64.AppImage` - If you'd like to run the latest version of qpdf as an [AppImage](https://appimage.org/), you can download this. This is a self-contained executable that you make symlink `qpdf` to and run on most reasonably recent Linux distributions. See README-appimage.md in the qpdf source distribution for additional details, or run the AppImage with the `--ai-usage` argument to get help specific to the AppImage. -* `qpdf--bin-linux-x86_64.zip` - This is a (nearly) stand-alone Linux binary, built using an Ubuntu LTS release. It contains the qpdf executables and shared libraries as well as dependent shared libraries that would not typically be present on a minimal system. This can be used to include qpdf in a minimal environment such as a docker container. It is also known to work as a layer in AWS Lambda and was initially created for that purpose. +* `qpdf--bin-linux-x86_64.zip` - This is not intended to be an end-user distribution. It is a (nearly) stand-alone Linux binary, built using an Ubuntu LTS release. It contains the qpdf executables and shared libraries as well as dependent shared libraries that would not typically be present on a minimal system. This can be used to include qpdf in a minimal environment such as a docker container. It is also known to work as a layer in AWS Lambda and was initially created for that purpose. Windows Build Support