Fix <sys/uio.h>

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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

Pedro, Thanks for the reference.

Mike, Thanks for the +1.

Ryan, Could you update Contribution Checklist? I think that the fact
that the GNU Coding Standard says "date you applied the change"
settles the issue.

Cheers,
Carlos.