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Re: Proposal to add additional annotated tags
- From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at gotplt dot org>
- To: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 19:01:56 +0530
- Subject: Re: Proposal to add additional annotated tags
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On Saturday 14 October 2017 02:51 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I would like to add the following annotated tags:
>
> 00cdcf5a4110f7ac68651f5662693c82f7bffaca glibc-2.26.9000
> 58557c229319a3b8d2eefdb62e7df95089eabe37 glibc-2.25.9000
> e720d3d9fea2058adb3de2905f1a399ad3e812ff glibc-2.24.9000
> c6f391dbf9b3b33e5bc0599dd96c40a0eff2f02b glibc-2.23.9000
> 1b15ff4810748abee11b949e6faa115f3f2d20f4 glibc-2.22.9000
> d5a8b70560cf758218c13bef6f1dd93ce216424f glibc-2.21.9000
> 21c83793a223666b8cfe438d81615941896b355c glibc-2.20.9000
> d5b396c1c89ed3026fc89bfcdd72b14d59972e45 glibc-2.19.9000
> 6c1fd795711bb510cffaab5ad2ab2739bb8db210 glibc-2.18.9000
> 2c8bfe7d6f22c4a599894846bf1715d93b295f53 glibc-2.17.9000
> e64ac02c24b43659048622714afdc92fedf561fa glibc-2.16.9000
>
> The proposed tag message is “glibc 2.17 development” for the last one,
> and counting upwards from that.
>
> The reason is that this makes “git describe” unique because its output
> no longer collides with the release branches. The “.9000” suffix is
> completely arbitrary, but it suggests that these numbers are not
> comparable with the numbers on release branches. The tags sort before
> the following release (and its tag) according to most version number
> comparison algorithms.
>
> Comments?
I think this is a good thing to add to the release checklist for the
future as well. Given that there are some who would prefer the option
of a point release, the path of least resistance would probably to let
both coexist for now.
siddhesh