tools/create-tarballs.sh: Document meson minimal version

meson 0.58.0 (at least) is required for meson dist --formats "$formats".
This version is quite old already, but better to document than be sorry.

Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/README.maintainer b/Documentation/README.maintainer
index a80fc75..65ecafa 100644
--- a/Documentation/README.maintainer
+++ b/Documentation/README.maintainer
@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ NOTE: 'tools/create-tarballs.sh' script creates also skeleton of the credit.
     git log $old_tag.. | grep -Ei 'tested-by:' | sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
 
 Create release tarballs (tar.xz, tar.gz and zip) and checksums with
-'tools/create-tarballs.sh' script.
+'tools/create-tarballs.sh' script. Run it with a reasonably new meson
+to avoid failures on old version (see minimal version in the file).
 
 NOTE: github also produces tar.gz and zip files. We consider them unsecure, do
 not recommend to use them and don't produce checksums for it.
diff --git a/tools/create-tarballs.sh b/tools/create-tarballs.sh
index 77ad74f..06e1fdd 100755
--- a/tools/create-tarballs.sh
+++ b/tools/create-tarballs.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh -eu
 # Copyright (c) 2023 Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
 # Create tarballs and checksums for uploading after tagging a new release.
+# NOTE: 0.58.0 (at least) is required (for meson dist --formats "$formats")
+# Run release with a reasonably new meson.
 
 basedir="$(dirname "$0")"
 . "$basedir/lib.sh"