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+# Documenting the process around making a new release
+
+## Ubuntu ppa builds
+At some point I want to automate this, but for now it is a little manual
+
+1. Make sure that the version in create-deb-dsc.sh matches the new version
+2. Create a new entry in debian/changelog to bring the new version
+3. Run `create-deb-dsc.sh`
+4. Attempt to build the resulting `../*.dsc` with something like `sbuild -d noble pam-ssh-agent_0.9.6-1~noble.dsc`
+5. upload with `dput ppa:nresare/ppa .dsc` when everything looks good
+
+## RPM builds
+
+1. Release a new version to crates.io
+2. Update the version in the [srpm Makefile](https://github.com/nresare/rpm-packaging/blob/main/pam-ssh-agent/Makefile#L2)
+3. Run `make srpm outdir=/tmp/out`, have it fail and use the downloaded artifact to update the crate.sha256 file
+4. Build the RPM with `mock --addrepo=https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/noa/rust/fedora-44-aarch64 /tmp/out/*.src.rpm`
+5. If it builds okay, commit the changes to the rpm-pacakging repo, navigate to the previous build in the [COPR ui](https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/noa/rust/builds/)
+6. Click the "Resubmit" button and hope that it builds correctly
+