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Re: Towards Meargeable patch submissions for glibc
On Mon, 3 Sep 2018, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Monday 03 September 2018 09:06 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Sep 2018, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> >
> > > I agree that is the ideal place to be in but it seems much harder to
> > > auto-generate a full ChangeLog entry in that manner and not something I
> >
> > Such a script specifically does not need to generate a full ChangeLog
> > entry (with separate descriptions of what changed in each entity), just a
> > list of changed entities.
>
> Ah OK, that's still not easy, but not that bad. It may not be able to do
> things like finding macro scope for [!MACRO_DEF] like entries without a full
> scale parser.
RMS didn't say it had to find the macro scope or list such conditionals at
all, just list the changed entities (although of course he may change his
mind).
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com