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@@ -539,5 +539,7 @@ changelog to tor-talk or tor-announce.
13) If it's a stable release, bump the version number in the maint-x.y.z
branch to "newversion-dev", and do a "merge -s ours" merge to avoid
- taking that change into master.
+ taking that change into master. Do a similar 'merge -s theirs'
+ merge to get the change (and only that change) into release. (Some
+ of the build scripts require that maint merge cleanly into release.)