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Re: [PATCH] Final NEWS and README updates.


On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> +* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
> +  conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
> +  library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.

Andreas Jaeger also did significant libm work (in particular sorting out 
the problems associated with use of x87 trig instructions, and reviewing 
almost all my libm patches).

> +* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timzone related binaries and scripts
> +  will continue to be installed.

Also say something like: Users should obtain current timezone data from 
the tzdata package at <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.

The README changes look good to me.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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