windres patch

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Chris,

> I package binutils for MinGW and one of our users has supplied a patch
> to windres to address an issue with windres processing UTF-8 files.
> How should the user go about submitting the patch to upstream binutils
> as opposed to having it as a local MinGW patch?

Ideally they should open a bug report at http://sourceware.org/bugzilla
and include the patch as an uploaded file.  It will help if this bug 
report also includes a small test case that we can use to reproduce the 
problem locally.  If your user has run any regression tests, (to make 
sure that the patch does not introduce any new bugs), then mentioning 
what tests they ran would also be helpful.

If the patch is an enhancement rather than a bug fix they could 
alternatively post it to this list (binutils@sourceware.org).

If the patch is non-trivial then they will need to have an FSF binutils 
copyright assignment in place before we can accept it.  There is an 
email form to fill out and send off in order to request such an 
assignment which can be found in the binutils email list archives, or I 
could just send you/your user a copy.

Cheers
   Nick