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Re: glibc 2.25 development --- 46 days to freeze.
On Fri, 2 Dec 2016, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Is this just a "general warning?" The release process does not say to use
> annotated tags. We made that mistake once and then it was removed from the
> release documentation.
Yes, it's a general warning based on experience. Annotated tags should be
used for releases themselves, but not otherwise (in particular not for
translation snapshots).
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Joseph S. Myers
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