Re: ChangeLog entries for sysroot branch, and merge

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Good afternoon Gary,

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 10:29:01AM CEST:
> On 28 Aug 2010, at 15:16, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
> > OK to apply to the sysroot branch and merge?
> > I'm not sure if I need to ask, so I'll leave a bit of time for comments.
> 
> I'm assuming that the ChangeLog entries map to the actual changes?

Erm.  (goes back to look again ...)  Yes, I would say so.  :-)

> How come the ChangeLogs weren't committed at the time of the changes
> that they log?

Oh, I think that was because at the start of the branch it wasn't clear
whether it might see a big rebasing or patch collapsing anyway so
authors wanted to not expend possibly extra time.  Or something like
that.

> But sure... we don't want changes in the tree without corresponding
> ChangeLog entries after all, so please go ahead.

Done.  And merged the sysroot branch to master.

> Actually, I have a patch series that moves to git-version-gen, but
> it's fiddly enough that we should wait until after the next release
> before merging.  But, at least that means we don't have to worry
> about TIMESTAMPS being screwy for too long between the next release
> and merging that patch series :-)

That's great!

Thanks,
Ralf