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Re: 2.29 freeze update: Last fortnight
On 1/15/19 11:52 AM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> Hi Siddhesh,
>
> 15.01.2019 15:37 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org> wrote:
>> [...]
>> How is the progress on the strftime change? It would be nice to wrap it
>> up this week so that we can declare a hard freeze for the last week.
>
> We need 2 things:
>
> 1. There are documentation changes which I hesitate to review because
> I think this should be done by a native English speaker (or anyone
> having equivalently perfect knowledge of English language).
>
> 2. I still don't understand why the newly added argument of
> __strftime_internal yr_spec is of the type "int *" rather than just
> "int". Maybe it is correct and the reason is that I have not
> analyzed it carefully enough. I'm sorry, I am unable to analyze
> it more carefully this week.
>
> Also, the first patch of the series has already been pushed.
>
> Question: do we need a separate bug report to fix the additional flags
> being ignored (like "%-EY" and "%_EY") or does it fall in the same
> general category "improve the width of %EY"?
Please file a new bug for this. This is a distinct issue.
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Cheers,
Carlos.