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Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] strftime: Add missing uses of L_ macro, etc. [BZ #23758]


Hello Rafal,

From: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] strftime: Add missing uses of L_ macro, etc. [BZ #23758]
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 11:02:25 +0100 (CET)

> 1. Please remove any reference to [BZ #23758] from this patch
> because it is not related with the bug.  The changes are minor
> and not visible for the users therefore they don't need any
> Bugzilla report, documentation, etc.

OK.  I will do that as an independent patch.

> 2. Regarding the subject of this email, which is also the first
> line of the commit message, I would write something like this:
> 
> "strftime: Consequently use the "L_" macro with character literals."
> 
> As always, I am not a native speaker so other people may provide
> better hints.

Thank you.

> > At first, make an unrelated changes for the consistency.
> 
> If it is the part of the commit message then something like:
> 
> "Make unrelated changes for the consistency."
> 
> (The core problem is that "an" is incorrect for plural numbers.)

Thank you.  Also, "At first" is also incorrect, should be "First" (or
"First of all").  But I will not add any of them this time because of
an independent patch.

> > ChangeLog:
> > 
> > 	[BZ #23758]
> > 	* time/strftime_l.c (__strftime_internal): Add missing uses of L_
> > 	macro, also add a missing space after the cast of _NL_CURRENT.
> 
> Good but again, Bugzilla mention should be removed and "missing
> uses" seems incorrect to me, "Add "L_" macros" or "Use "L_" macros"
> is sufficient and seems correct to me.

OK.  I will correct in the next patch.

Regards,
TAMUKI Shoichi


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