Fix <sys/uio.h>

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Mon Apr 16 21:36:00 GMT 2012


On Monday 16 April 2012 17:31:20 Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 04/16/2012 10:24 PM, Ryan S. Arnold wrote:
> > Considering that I have to regenerate the patch to apply it cleanly,
> > I'm not sure how this should be added to the ChangeLog.
> > 
> > We discussed in IRC a bit and Roland seems in favor of adding it with
> > the existing (old) date to the top of the ChangeLog.
> > 
> > Carlos O'Donell seems to favor updating the date to reflect the commit
> > date.
> > 
> > Consensus would be nice on this one.
> 
> I realize glibc's practices may pre-date current GNU Coding Standards'
> conventions, but, IMO, in the interest of eliminating differences between
> different GNU projects, with only adds to confusion for people that work
> on more than one, it'd be best to just follow what the GNU coding standard
> says.  And it says:
> 
>  "As for the date, that should be the date you applied the change. "
> 
> <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Style-of-Change-Logs>

+1 ... especially since this is how the other GNU toolchain projects work.  
i've got binutils/gdb/etc... encoded in my mind when it comes to writing GNU 
changelogs.
-mike
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