Re: debian/patches

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

Ben Collins wrote:
> > BTW, some patches or bugs are already in upstream.
> > I contacted to Ulrich yesterday when 2.2.6 would be released.
> > The answer is "not decided yet, working 2.3 is more important".
> > "update to current 2.2.5+ CVS" means after -13 glibc package stands
> > on (a) the latest glibc-2-2-branch or (b) 2.3 CVS?
> > I think in the first we choose (a) is better
> > (well, tests are needed, but standing on 2002-01-17 is something old).
> > That leads us not to include the patches pulling out from 2.2/2.3 cvs
> > one by one. What do you think about it?
>
>
> 2.2.5+ means "2.2.5 + 2.2 CVS", otherwise it wouldn't be 2.2.anything,
> it would be 2.3-cvs.
>
> We wont mess with 2.3 until 2.2.90 is released (the first 2.3.0 beta
> release).

I agree to that confusion should not be occured especially glibc
until upstream thinks it reaches release stability level.
OK, we are going to patch 'one by one model' until 2.2.6/2.2.90
would be released with patch state marking you mentioned.

-- gotom