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Re: glibc open for 2.17 development, ports repository closed
- From: Tom de Vries <Tom_deVries at mentor dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: GLIBC Devel <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:17:21 +0200
- Subject: Re: glibc open for 2.17 development, ports repository closed
> Now that Roland has put the merge of ports onto master, I have applied the
> changes to version.h to open up 2.17 development (plus added a skeleton
> section to NEWS to start recording bugs fixed in 2.17), and added the
> README.ports-moved-to-libc file to the ports repository. The hooks in the
> ports repository should now be configured to disallow future commits to
> master (until the point, maybe in a month or two, when we remove all files
> from master other than README.ports-moved-to-libc).
Joseph,
the patch below makes it explicit in the web pages that the ports add-on is only
for 2.16 and older.
I would like to become member of libc group with my savannah account such that I
can check out the web sources and propose a proper patch, is that ok?
Thanks,
-Tom
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/download.html:
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--- download.html.orig 2012-08-20 12:15:41.089638706 +0200
+++ download.html 2012-08-20 12:34:41.205648330 +0200
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
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- To additionally fetch the contributed ports add-on:
+ To additionally fetch the contributed ports add-on (for 2.16 and older
release branches, see also README.ports-moved-to-libc):
</p><pre>git clone git://sourceware.org/git/glibc-ports.git <a
href="http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc-ports.git";>[gitweb]</a>
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