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Re: [PATCH v9 2/2] Y2038: make __tz_convert compatible with 64-bit-time
On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, Albert ARIBAUD (3ADEV) wrote:
> * running 'make check' on branch release/2.28/master
> * applying the patch above branch release/2.28/master
> * running 'make check' again
> * checking that both 'make check' yield identical results.
Please don't use release branches for this testing, at all. You're
proposing patches for master. You need to do the testing on master.
Just ignore release branches completely for this work (unless it turns out
that a patch in this series introduces a regression that gets into a
release branch before it's discovered and fixed, in which case release
branches become relevant for testing cherry-picks of the fix to them,
after the fix is verified and committed on master).
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Joseph S. Myers
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