01/03: doc: Document some requirements of the update-NEWS target.

[Maxim Cournoyer]

apteryx pushed a commit to branch master
in repository maintenance.

commit 68ff163e2e1a6c290a0e06a1aba18fdafc9524f1
Author: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sun Apr 18 10:08:39 2021 -0400

    doc: Document some requirements of the update-NEWS target.
    
    * doc/release.org (Update the list of new and updated packages):
    Mention that some sections are expected to already exist.
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 doc/release.org | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/release.org b/doc/release.org
index 5637985..5011cba 100644
--- a/doc/release.org
+++ b/doc/release.org
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ This target needs requires a checkout of
 <git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix/maintenance.git>, which is where we
 store the list of package/version pairs of each Guix release.
 
+The update-NEWS script expects some sections to already exist such as
+'*** new packages' and '*** package updates' that are to be updated.
+
 ** Commit the new list of packages in maintenance.git
 
 Running “make update-NEWS” creates a ‘data/packages-X.Y.Z.txt’ file in