Re: glibc

[Thomas Schwinge]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:17:51PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    Done: <URL:http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=765>
>    Is it correct that this was automatically assigned to
>    <URL:mailto:gotom@debian.or.jp>?  At least, I'm not aware of having
>    changed anything.
> 
> Thank you.  Leave it as default, I think that is OK.

... and was resolved.


>    I needed the attached patches to make it compile. 
> 
> Yeah, I knew about those two, been in my tree for ages and never got
> around to mailing them.  Including some other fixes...  Need to get
> unbusy, hmph.

Well, you finally did and they were applied on HEAD.
Shouldn't they get applied on glibc-2_3-branch as well or do you only
care to have HEAD compiling / running on GNU/Hurd?

Alfred, what are your "other fixes"?  Anything important for me to know?


>    Shall I open bugzilla requests for them?  What's the policy for
>    such tiny changes?
>    
> My policy has always been to send the patch to libc-alpha.  But from
> the looks, things have changed now.  Roland, care to enlighten on how
> you should report bugs to glibc now?

It seems posting, waiting for some months and reposting suffices.
:-)

>    and why aren't they noticed by other people?
> 
> "They" don't compile or test glibc on GNU/Hurd.

"They" are surely missing something!
;-)


Regards,
 Thomas