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Re: apply gnulib test suite to glibc


On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 04/22/2012 03:37 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>> Paul Eggert made a start with a mktime patch series, but the approved
>> changes don't seem to have been committed yet (and then the unreviewed
>> ones should be reposted in a new patch series to attempt to get consensus
>> on them).
>
> Yes, that effort got bogged down: Roland approved a few of the
> patches (the most trivial ones) and asked me to commit them,
> and I didn't have permission, and my first attempt to get my keys
> fixed didn't work, and the second attempt may have worked but at
> that point I had other stuff to do that was both more pleasant
> and higher priority. ?However, I'll try to raise the priority
> of mktime and start the ball rolling again within a week.
>
> The slightly bigger picture, though, is that from my point of view
> this has been too much gruntwork for one set of patches for one file.
> I'm the primary author of mktime.c and know it better than
> anyone else, I checked these fixes carefully, and the fixes have been
> in widespread use (via gnulib) on many platforms for years. ?Putting in
> these changes should be a slam-dunk, but that hasn't happened.
>
> If this is what's needed to do a best-case merge like mktime.c I shudder
> to think how much bureaucratic effort will be needed for other parts
> of gnulib that should be merged into libc. ?It's a daunting prospect.
> It shouldn't be that daunting.

I'm sorry to hear that you feel this is a daunting prospect.

What can we do to make this easier?

I'm open to suggestions.

Cheers,
Carlos.


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