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Re: [PATCH] Add --print-dirs option for ldconfig
- From: Dan Nicholson <dbn dot lists at gmail dot com>
- To: Jeff Bailey <jbailey at raspberryginger dot com>
- Cc: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 07:52:57 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --print-dirs option for ldconfig
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On 4/1/12, Jeff Bailey <jbailey@raspberryginger.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Carlos O'Donell
> <carlos@systemhalted.org>wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Please have a look at the contribution checklist and see if there is
>> >> anything else you might be missing:
>> >> http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Contribution%20checklist
>> >
>> > I don't have copyright assignment for glibc. If you feel like this
>> > change is significant, I can work on getting it.
>>
>> Roland,
>>
>> What's your take on this? I have little experience here, but it seems
>> like this is trivial enough to do without copyright. There is really
>> only one way to add an option, and only one way to list the already
>> present strings. The change doesn't seem to meet any standard of
>> originality as required by copyright.
>>
>
> If he's debugging issues and wanting this change, I'd argue there's a high
> likelyhood of other patches coming in the future. I'd suggest that at a
> minimum he pursue it in prep for that.
This was more of a drive by change that I thought would be nice, but
there is one other thing I'd like to poke at. I don't have any issues
getting the copyright assignment, but I'm not real familiar with the
procedure.
--
Dan