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Re: [PATCH] [V3] gettextize some overlooked option arguments


On Tue, Mar 19, 2013, at 23:05, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I really don't know why you went to the trouble of sending a patch

To get my name into git, of course -- in the "Author:" line.

> when
> you are not willing to meet the requirements of contributing changes to
> the project directly.

Why do you keep saying that when you know (and I know) that my
contribution was completely trivial and therefore does not require
any assignment.

> In fact, I did not actually use your patch at
> all.  The exchange with you alerted me to the issue, and I then grepped
> the source tree for instances and fixed them all myself in one sitting.

You missed the ones in localedef.c, though.  And you grepped only
because I said there was more of this stuff (and identified the
occurrences), so you may want to readd the "Reported by" line
for those changes.

> Nonetheless, we endeavor to make people who report bugs in libc feel
> appreciated for doing so, and I have now amended the ChangeLog to help
> you feel appreciated since this is apparently so important to you.

Thanks.  That will do., for that change.  (Although i'm not entirely satisfied,
i'll let it be, to not drive you nuts.  :)

Benno

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