Need help in properly formatting a patch for glibc

Denys Vlasenko dvlasenk@redhat.com
Tue Aug 19 08:58:00 GMT 2008


On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 15:28 -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Ryan Arnold <ryan.arnold@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> Please advice what I did wrong, and what is the correct Changelog
> >> format.
> 
> Your patch also lacks the following:
> 
> 1. A detailed explanation of the patch.
> e.g. Under what conditions does it occur?

Details are at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457508

> 2. Testing.
> e.g. After patching glibc, did you run the testsuite to verify your
> patch didn't break anything?

Yes, it does not break anything.
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vda




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