RFC: Backport architecture specific improvements to release branches

[Adhemerval Zanella]

On 29/03/2022 16:33, Andreas K. Huettel via Libc-alpha wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
>> We'd like to backport architecture specific improvements to release branches,
>> similar to backports under sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch on users/intel/x86/2.34
>> branch:
> 
> please, if you do this, when possible make some well-defined patch series
> (with a start and end) instead of a continuous trickle of fixes and improvements.
> 
> [When I tried to make a cutoff for the 2.34 patchlevel to be "stabilized" for Gentoo, 
> I was never sure if the series is finished or if another important thing follows
> in a few days...]
> 
> Thanks a lot for your work.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andreas
> 

Specially for release branches, each patch should be self-contained (meaning it builds
and do not trigger any regression).  Are you seeing something differently?