From bb5f72f6fe346c76f459aa1c4305c29d1cedf4fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Gary D. Gregory" <ggregory@apache.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:52:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added a section called "Validating packages".

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpclient/trunk@1626487 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 BUILDING.txt | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/BUILDING.txt b/BUILDING.txt
index 18b065fb3..0539ea4fb 100644
--- a/BUILDING.txt
+++ b/BUILDING.txt
@@ -36,7 +36,17 @@ httpclient-osgi/target/org.apache.httpcomponents.httpclient_<VERSION>.jar
 
 where <VERSION> is the release version
 
-(4) Building documentation 
+(4) Validating packages
+
+Check for binary compatibility with the previous version with:
+
+mvn clirr:check
+
+Check for proper license headers with:
+
+mvn apache-rat:check
+
+(5) Building documentation 
 
 Execute the following command in order to generate javadoc: