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Re: Glibc release check-list
- From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm at maven dot pl>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, ams at gnu dot org
- Cc: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>, dan at codesourcery dot com, schwab at linux-m68k dot org, pasky at suse dot cz, libc-ports at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:07:13 +0100
- Subject: Re: Glibc release check-list
- References: <20091113142845.GS3708@machine.or.cz> <119aab440911140842u39c5967k9fd8a820cfce49ab@mail.gmail.com> <E1N9iDQ-0005gF-D6@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Sunday 15 of November 2009, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Should the ports maintainers have a pow-wow to decide who gets to do
> the honours and when?
>
> I think that ports releases should be done in sync with glibc. Users
> will become immensly confused if you have glibc-ports-2.42 that is to
> be used with glibc 2.11.
>
Users won't be confused if you use glibc-ports-2.11-x.y where x.y is ports
version and 2.11 is for which glibc is that ports package. This will allow
more frequent releases than glibc if needed.
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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team
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