From 77bd6b2ae14936731bccd7957ac15b85555f67fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Tatham Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 18:51:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Improvements to the pre-release testing checklist. These are mostly things I jotted down before releasing 0.74, and also one thing I _should_ have tested but didn't. --- CHECKLST.txt | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHECKLST.txt b/CHECKLST.txt index 69355d2b..d3e6a0f5 100644 --- a/CHECKLST.txt +++ b/CHECKLST.txt @@ -109,8 +109,17 @@ Making a release candidate build * check they report the right version number * if there's any easily observable behaviour difference between the release branch and master, arrange to observe it - * test the Windows installer - * test the Unix source tarball. + * test that the Windows installer installs successfully + + on x86 and Arm, and test that putty.exe runs in both cases + * test that the Unix source tarball unpacks and builds + + on at least a reasonably current stable Linux distro, and + also try Debian sid + + test-build with all of GTK 1, 2 and 3 + * feed the release-candidate source to Coverity and make sure it + didn't turn up any last-minute problems + * make sure we have a clean run of sctest + * do some testing on a system with a completely clean slate (no + prior saved session data) Preparing to make the release -----------------------------