Question: more languages to support alternative month names?

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 01:10:28PM +0100, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
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> Also I'd like to cherry-pick them all into 2.27 release branch.
> Can you guys explain me the process of committing to the stable
> branch? I should update ChangeLog, that is obvious.  What about
> NEWS?  Should I retroactively add new languages and bugs to the
> list of languages supporting the genitive case of month names
> and to the list of bugs fixed in 2.27, just as if they were fixed
> 2 months ago?  Create a new section for 2.27.1?  Do not update
> NEWS?  Do not cherry-pick anything to 2.27?

You main backporting tool is "git cherry-pick -x",
the process of cherry-picking is straightforward assuming that
you have a working merge-changelog referenced by .gitattributes file.

When a cherry-picked commit fixes a bug, the commit has to be amended
to explicitly list this fixed bug in "Version 2.27.1" part of NEWS.
You can look at the output of
git log -p glibc-2.27..glibc-2.27-27-gb63daad -- NEWS
command to get an idea how this works.

If you are going to list languages supporting the genitive case of month
names, a new section should be within "Version 2.27.1" part of NEWS, too.

Hope this helps,


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