@@ -467,6 +467,20 @@ When doing a MAINT release, check that perlgov lists the I<current>
467467Perl Steering Council and Core Team members, in case they have changed
468468since the corresponding stable release has been shipped.
469469
470+ =for checklist skip MAINT BLEAD-POINT RC
471+
472+ =head3 Merge BLEAD-POINT perldeltas
473+
474+ All perldeltas from the 5.X series must be
475+ merged into F<pod/perldelta.pod>. The process starts with
476+
477+ ./perl -Ilib Porting/merge-deltas.pl
478+
479+ The resulting F<pod/perldelta.pod> will need to be edited. In particular,
480+ lists will need to be merged. Sections which were describe changes which
481+ were reverted will need to be removed. Some items may benefit from being
482+ merged into a new summary.
483+
470484=head3 Update perldelta
471485
472486Get perldelta in a mostly finished state.
@@ -480,16 +494,6 @@ release process.
480494Read F<Porting/how_to_write_a_perldelta.pod>, and try to make sure that
481495every section it lists is, if necessary, populated and complete.
482496
483- In the case of a BLEAD-FINAL, all perldeltas from the 5.X series must be
484- merged into F<pod/perldelta.pod>. The process starts with
485-
486- ./perl -Ilib Porting/merge-deltas.pl
487-
488- The resulting F<pod/perldelta.pod> will need to be edited. In particular,
489- lists will need to be merged. Sections which were describe changes which
490- were reverted will need to be removed. Some items may benefit from being
491- merged into a new summary.
492-
493497You won't be able to automatically fill in the "Updated Modules" section until
494498after L<Module::CoreList> is updated (as described below in
495499L</"Update Module::CoreList">).
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