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Status of merging distribution patches


One area where we haven't seen as much progress as I'd like is merging the 
accumulated piles of distribution patches back into glibc (except in those 
cases where a patch is for some inherently distribution-specific purpose, 
e.g. compatibility with ABI mistakes in past distribution binaries).

I've again updated the list of changes to consider for merging from 
EGLIBC, linked from 
<http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Development_Todo/Master#Distribution_merging>.  
That wiki page section lists what I think are the main distribution trees 
from which patches need merging - note that I've included gnulib and the 
separate GNU Hurd glibc trees in what I consider to be distributions.  Do 
maintainers of those various trees have any similar todo lists of the 
individual changes to consider for glibc and plans regarding how to merge 
those changes?

(Much the same also applies to distribution bug trackers - it would be 
useful there as well for people to go through bugs and file them in glibc 
Bugzilla if they represent valid well-defined bugs that are still present 
in current unmodified glibc sources and aren't currently in glibc 
Bugzilla.)

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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