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Re: Where should ChangeLog entries for localedata go to now?
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
- Cc: "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Mike FABIAN <mfabian at redhat dot com>, "libc-locales at sourceware dot org" <libc-locales at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 14:35:58 +0000
- Subject: Re: Where should ChangeLog entries for localedata go to now?
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On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> If I understood correctly [1] [2] the changes to localedata
> should go to the main ChangeLog. But also IIRC the reason why
> localedata had its own ChangeLog is that the changes to
> localedata are not copyrighted. Therefore, is that what
> we wanted?
The separate ChangeLog was probably because in glibc 2.0 localedata was an
add-on distributed in a separate release tarball. As we haven't had
separate release tarballs for different parts of the project for a long
time, there is no need for separate ChangeLogs for them either.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com