Draw attention to linux binary not being end-user facing (fixes #534)

Jay Berkenbilt
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README-maintainer
README-what-to-download.md
@@ -314,6 +314,16 @@ done
 If needed, go onto github and make any manual updates such as
 indicating a pre-release, adding release notes, etc.
  
+Template for release notes:
+
+```
+This is qpdf version x.y.z. (Brief description)
+
+For a full list of changes from previous releases, please see the [release notes](http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/files/qpdf-manual.html#ref.release-notes). See also [README-what-to-download](./README-what-to-download.md) for details on the available source and binary distributions.
+```
+
+
+
 # Publish release
 gcurl -XPOST $url -d'{"draft": false}'
  
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Virtually all Linux distributions include packages for qpdf. There is also a PPA
  
 * `qpdf-<version>-x86_64.AppImage` - If you'd like to run the latest version of qpdf as an [AppImage](https://appimage.org/), you can download this. This is a self-contained executable that you make symlink `qpdf` to and run on most reasonably recent Linux distributions. See README-appimage.md in the qpdf source distribution for additional details, or run the AppImage with the `--ai-usage` argument to get help specific to the AppImage.
  
-* `qpdf-<version>-bin-linux-x86_64.zip` - This is a (nearly) stand-alone Linux binary, built using an Ubuntu LTS release. It contains the qpdf executables and shared libraries as well as dependent shared libraries that would not typically be present on a minimal system. This can be used to include qpdf in a minimal environment such as a docker container. It is also known to work as a layer in AWS Lambda and was initially created for that purpose.
+* `qpdf-<version>-bin-linux-x86_64.zip` - This is not intended to be an end-user distribution. It is a (nearly) stand-alone Linux binary, built using an Ubuntu LTS release. It contains the qpdf executables and shared libraries as well as dependent shared libraries that would not typically be present on a minimal system. This can be used to include qpdf in a minimal environment such as a docker container. It is also known to work as a layer in AWS Lambda and was initially created for that purpose.
  
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