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Re: Updating NEWS for fixed bugs
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 22:19:38 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Updating NEWS for fixed bugs
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1202170031400.11423@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
A special case occurs to me:
If a bug was both introduced and fixed within a single release cycle, so
no release ever had the bug, then it's not relevant information to users
that the bug was fixed in a particular release. So in that case it seems
appropriate *not* to add the bug to NEWS (but still to mention it in the
ChangeLog entry). Comments?
(Bug 13566 - the gets issue, which for now I haven't added to NEWS - is a
case in point.)
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com