Added doc on making a release

Added signing and checksumming tarball to preparation script
Renamed said script

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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright 2006,2008 Nick White
+#
+# This file is part of GetHT.
+#
+# GetHT is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# GetHT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with GetHT.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+TMPDIR="/tmp"
+ORIGDIR=$(pwd)
+
+VERSION=$(gawk -F \" '{print $2}' src/version.h | \
+	sed -e ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n//g')
+
+echo Packaging GetHT version $VERSION
+
+echo Copying sources to a temporary directory
+rm -rf $TMPDIR/getht-$VERSION && \
+git clone . $TMPDIR/getht-version && \
+cd $TMPDIR/getht-$VERSION
+
+# ensure version number in configure.ac is set correctly
+sed -i "s|^AC_INIT(getht, .*)$|AC_INIT(getht, $VERSION)|" configure.ac
+
+echo Building necessary autotools parts
+autoreconf -i
+
+echo Cleaning make environment
+make clean
+
+echo Cleaning up working directory
+rm -rf autom4te.cache
+rm prepare-package.sh
+
+echo Packaging into a tarball
+cd ..
+tar -cjf getht-$VERSION.tar.bz2 getht-$VERSION
+
+echo Removing temporary directory
+rm -rf getht-$VERSION
+
+cd $ORIGDIR
+mv $TMPDIR/getht-$VERSION.tar.bz2 .
+
+echo Signing package
+gpg -b getht-$VERSION.tar.bz2
+
+echo Checksumming package
+sha1sum getht-$VERSION.tar.bz2
+
+echo "Packaging of GetHT $VERSION complete."
+echo "The tarball resides at ./getht-$VERSION.tar.bz2"