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Re: glibc 2.25 development --- 46 days to freeze.
On 12/02/2016 10:56 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2016, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
>> Is this just a "general warning?" The release process does not say to use
>> annotated tags. We made that mistake once and then it was removed from the
>> release documentation.
>
> Yes, it's a general warning based on experience. Annotated tags should be
> used for releases themselves, but not otherwise (in particular not for
> translation snapshots).
Agreed. Thank you for the reminder.
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Cheers,
Carlos.