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Re: Fix rintf rounding (bug 2548)
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
>> My preference is to say that backport requests like this should be
>> filed as bugs against 2.15 or with keyword glibc_2.15. There is no way
>> a release manager will be able to easily and reliabley track backports
>> without the help of bugzilla.
>>
>> Comments?
>
> Seems reasonable - is your suggestion that the backport request be filed
> as soon as the patch goes in on master, even if it would be a good idea to
> allow the patch some time in master in case of any problems on other
> architectures, before backporting?
Yes, the backport request should be filed as soon as the patch goes on master.
Then it is up to the experience and discretion of the release branch
maintainer to apply or reject the request.
I don't think there is any value in adding an artificial wait time here.
> My impression is that the various recent libm-test-ulps changes should be
> backported as the relevant library / testsuite changes were already in
> 2.15. ?And I think Aurelien's change to floating-point comparisons is also
> relevant for 2.15.
If you feel that those things are relevant for 2.15 then please submit
bugzilla issues to have me review them for backporting.
This will allow me to easily track how many fixes have been applied to
2.15 and thus give me a metric for releasing 2.15.1.
Cheers,
Carlos.