Please update NEWS when backporting bug fixes to stable branches.
H.J. Lu
hjl.tools@gmail.com
Fri Feb 26 13:56:00 GMT 2016
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> When backporting bugs to stable branches please:
>
> - Create a new point release entry in NEWS if the previous
> release manager has't. I just did this for 2.23.1.
>
> - Update NEWS with the bug you just fixed. We don't file
> distinct bugs for the point release so you must still
> update those bugs by hand.
>
> e.g.
> ~~~
> Version 2.23.1
>
> Security related changes:
>
> [Add security related changes here]
>
> The following bugs are resolved with this release:
>
> [19679] gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to unaligned stack
> ~~~
>
> This way we'll keep the point releases updated and listing
> the bugs that were fixed by backports.
Thanks.
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H.J.
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