Improve the instructions on how to make a release.

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 make install-myspell DESTDIR=/some/path
 </pre></blockquote>
 
-<a name="disting"><h2>Building the tarball and distribution files</h2></a>
+<a name="disting"><h2>Making a new release, building the tarball and distribution files</h2></a>
 
-The tarball is generated using the <tt>dist</tt> makefile target.  It
+<p>The tarball is generated using the <tt>dist</tt> makefile target.  It
 is best to use the <tt>distcheck</tt> target instead to do a test
 build of the generated tarball to check if all the required files are
-included.  This target will also generate a package for OpenOffice.org
+included.
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+make distclean distcheck
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>This target will also generate a package for OpenOffice.org
 (<Tt>no_NO-<em>version</em>.zip</tt>) as well as the
 <tt>spell-norwegian-<em>version</em>.tar.gz</tt> tarball.
 
+<p>It might be a good idea to fetch the latest thesaurus file before
+making the tarball and zip files.  This is done using the
+<tt>thesaurus-nb.txt-update</tt> target.  There is no equivalent nn
+target yet.
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+make thesaurus-nb.txt-update
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+When the files are tested and found to be working, the CVS tree used
+to build the distribution should be tagged to document which version
+of the files were used to make the release.  This is done by using
+<tt>cvs tag <em>version-tag</em></tt> in the
+<tt>src/spell-norwegian/</tt> directory.  Use <tt>cvs status -v
+Makefile</tt> to see the name structure of the used tags.
+
 <blockquote><pre>
-make distcheck
+cvs tag release_<em>version_with_underline</em>
 </pre></blockquote>
 
 <h2>Old instructions</h2>