Seems sth easily forgotten (4.8.3 and 4.7.4 are examples of that).
We should make sure to at least update displayed copyright years.
Committed.
Richard.
2014-06-13 Richard Biener <rguent...@suse.de>
* releasing.html: Add step to verify displayed copyright years.
Index: releasing.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/releasing.html,v
retrieving revision 1.42
diff -u -r1.42 releasing.html
--- releasing.html 30 May 2014 11:11:11 -0000 1.42
+++ releasing.html 13 Jun 2014 09:55:32 -0000
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@
The <code>changes.html</code> page for that release series should have
details added of the changes in each minor release.</li>
+<li>Verify that displayed copyright years include the current year.
+Check at least <code>java/jcf-dump.c</code>, <code>gcc.c</code>,
+<code>gcov.c</code>, <code>fortran/gfortranspec.c</code> and
+<code>gcov-dump.c</code> (grep for <code>"Copyright</code>).
+Also check documentation. See SVN revision 194838 for an incomplete
+example.
+
<li>Verify <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/PR43620";>PR other/43620</a> isn't
a problem on the branch, otherwise ftp upload to ftp.gnu.org might fail.
<code>find . -name Makefile.in | xargs grep a+w</code>
