[2.30][RFC] vcs-to-changelog quirks file for glibc

[H.J. Lu]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 8:26 AM Siddhesh Poyarekar
<siddhesh@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> A vcs-to-changelog script set has been posted on the gnulib mailing
> list (archive not updated yet) and this script uses a quirks file in
> the project for a number of things including determining the target
> VCS and macro substitutions that are needed to allow the frontend
> parser in the script to work correctly.
>
> This is the glibc quirks file that makes a number of substitutions
> including all the libc-symbol hack macros.
>
> ---
>
> If all goes well, I intend to add this quirks file immediately upon
> opening 2.30 development on master so that we don't have to put in
> ChangeLog entries from 2.30 onwards.  Does that sound acceptable?  This
> is of course assuming that the script is at least accepted in principle
> in gnulib, i.e. the approach is considered acceptable and we only need
> to iterate on making sure that code quality standards are met.
>
> Siddhesh
>
>  vcstocl_quirks.py | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 64 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 vcstocl_quirks.py
>
> diff --git a/vcstocl_quirks.py b/vcstocl_quirks.py
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..b29ea56031
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/vcstocl_quirks.py

Should it be in the "script" directory?

-- 
H.J.