maint: minor fixes

[bison.git] / README-hacking

diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking
index 3ba1d4f94d26d07504943aa78c184e8ff3f5224b..f128c9c5b2a9cc448f1da5b4f3d437da4d201b34 100644 (file)
--- a/README-hacking
+++ b/README-hacking
@@ -259,7 +259,10 @@ that the skeletons insert into generated parsers, and check all
 occurrences of PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR in configure.ac.
 
 ** Update NEWS, commit and tag.
-See do-release-commit-and-tag in README-release.
+See do-release-commit-and-tag in README-release.  For a while, we used
+beta names such as "2.6_rc1".  Now that we use gnulib in the release
+procedure, we must use "2.5.90", which has the additional benefit of
+being properly sorted in "git tag -l".
 
 ** make alpha, beta, or stable
 See README-release.