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Checklist for Hurd releases.

o   Symlinks in /bin; esp. sh, awk, more.
o   Make sure /i486-gnu contains hard links, not copies.
o   Make sure we are using Hurd versions of su and uptime, not sh-utils.
o   Make install-dist from release dir.
o   Make sure there is only a stubby resolv.conf in the distribution.
o   Make sure there /etc/fstab has no active members
o   Make /info/dir
o   Source code for Hurd and libc must be released.
o   Make sure everything listed in SOURCES is on prep.
o   Remove .stamp files from binary tree.
o   Make everything root.wheel, mode 755/644.
o   Make /games games.daemon.
o   Check permissions on setuid files in binary tree.
       (login, ps, w, vmstat, rsh, rlogin, games/lib/nethack/nethack)
o   Check each directory for bogus cruft files.
o   Especially delete .bash_history, .gnunfs*, and .stamp files.
o   Verify installation on bare machine.