Re: Releases 2.17.6 and 2.16.1

[Graham Percival]

On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 04:29:53PM -0000, Phil Holmes wrote:
> I finished building 2.17.6 about 30 minutes ago.  Gub failed again,
> but I know how to fix this manually and have done so, so it's ready
> for upload.

I suggest a moratorium on releases until GUB works.  Too many
things can go wrong when manual steps are required.

> I've just pushed a
> commit to gperciva/gub that will likely fix this - although this is
> somewhat "by inspection" so if anyone knows more of the internals of
> gub and can comment, I'd be happy.

This looks questionable to me:
        
-NATIVE_BUILD_COMMITTISH=$(shell cat
$(LILYPOND_REPO_BRANCH_DIR)/refs/heads/$(LILYPOND_DIRRED_BRANCH))
+NATIVE_BUILD_COMMITTISH=$(shell cat
$(LILYPOND_REPO_DIR)/git/refs/heads/$(LILYPOND_DIRRED_BRANCH))

Isn't _BRANCH_DIR vs. _DIR how we distinguish between master and
release/unstable and stable/2.16 ?

- Graham