Update some comments to make sense for -D.

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@@ -257,9 +257,15 @@ The generic GNU upload procedure is at:
 
   http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Automated-FTP-Uploads
 
-After following the instructions there to register your information so you're
-permitted to upload, here's a brief reminder of how to roll the tarballs and
-upload them:
+Follow the instructions there to register your information so you're permitted
+to upload.  Make sure your public key has been uploaded at least to
+keys.gnupg.net.  You can upload it with:
+
+  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --send-keys F125BDF3
+
+where F125BDF3 should be replaced with your key ID.
+
+Here's a brief reminder of how to roll the tarballs and upload them:
 
 *** make distcheck
 *** gpg -b bison-2.3b.tar.gz
@@ -277,6 +283,47 @@ upload them:
 *** put bison-2.3b.tar.gz.directive.asc
 *** Repeat all these steps for bison-2.3b.tar.bz2.
 
+** Update Bison manual on www.gnu.org.
+
+*** You need a non-anonymous checkout of the web pages directory.
+
+  $ cvs -d YOUR_USERID@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/web/bison checkout bison
+
+*** Get familiar with the instructions for web page maintainers.
+http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/readme_index.html
+http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/README.software.html
+especially the note about symlinks.
+
+*** Build the web pages.
+Assuming BISON_CHECKOUT refers to a checkout of the Bison dir, and
+BISON_WWW_CHECKOUT refers to the web directory created above, do:
+
+  $ cd $BISON_CHECKOUT/doc
+  $ make stamp-vti
+  $ ../build-aux/gendocs.sh -o "$BISON_WWW_CHECKOUT/manual" \
+    bison "Bison - GNU parser generator"
+  $ cd $BISON_WWW_CHECKOUT
+
+Verify that the result looks sane.
+
+*** Commit the modified and the new files.
+
+*** Remove old files.
+Find the files which have not been overwritten (because they belonged to
+sections that have been removed or renamed):
+
+   $ cd manual/html_node
+   $ ls -lt
+
+Remove these files and commit their removal to CVS.  For each of these
+files, add a line to the file .symlinks.  This will ensure that
+hyperlinks to the removed files will redirect to the entire manual; this
+is better than a 404 error.
+
+There is a problem with 'index.html' being written twice (once for POSIX
+function 'index', once for the table of contents); you can ignore this
+issue.
+
 ** Announce
 To generate a template announcement file: