News outdated and repo needs 3.3.0 tag commit fix

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca
Tue Oct 3 22:37:07 GMT 2023


Hi Jeff,

The script needs work then ;^> - the tag was attached to the third Cygwin commit 
after - almost 14 hours later!
Maybe skip commits where any of the targets are under winsup/?

add pseudo console fixes to release text	newlib-3.3.0
[Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:05:51 +0000 (11:05 +0100)]

...

Bump up newlib release to 3.3.0
[Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:17:43 +0000 (15:17 -0500)]

Announcement messages are things we sometimes get distracted from by life.
GNU and Cygwin do not always announce every library or package update.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada


On 2023-10-03 12:57, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> Thanks for pointing this out.  I'll fix the 4.2.0 and 4.3.0 announcements.
> 
> Regarding 3.3.0, the tag gets created in the same script I create the
> snapshot so the tag should always match the snapshot.  There were
> mitigating circumstances as to why the message wasn't posted, but I'll try
> and not let it happen again.

> On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 2:16 PM Brian Inglis wrote:
>> Noticed that News from newlib home page has not been updated for 4.3.0:
>> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-htdocs.git;a=blob;f=news.html
>> email:  newlib-4.3.0 yearly snapshot created
>> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/newlib/2023/020141.html
>> https://inbox.sourceware.org/newlib/CAOox84tjkL4VUHCA5ZQ1FOk0KQv6BTat0XA+RYSHnaYANYdijQ@mail.gmail.com/
>> 4.2.0 lacks the announcement in discussion:
>> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/newlib/2022/019078.html
>> https://inbox.sourceware.org/newlib/CAOox84vpcvdynm2gEvDzS1sC55sp66zMoq_zRCCxidZTsm9hEQ@mail.gmail.com/
>> and there appears to never have been an announcement for 3.3.0,
>> post copyright updates, just the tag newlib-3.3.0:
>> Newlib snapshot for 3.3.0
>> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=tag;h=b74fcc878149cbf775f2ef12725e9fe48aff7122
>> but that newlib-3.3.0 tag is on a later Cygwin patch rather than:
>> Bump up newlib release to 3.3.0
>> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commit;h=4e78f8ea163fec468072e8fe1f498b9abaaf838f


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