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Re: libgcj maintenance for 4.0.x branch

From: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
To: Anthony Green <green at redhat dot com>
Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:44:34 -0700
Subject: Re: libgcj maintenance for 4.0.x branch
References: <1113590159.32461.7.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Anthony Green wrote:

Michael Koch has volunteered to maintain the GCC 4.0.x branch for
libgcj.  This basically involves moving approved patches from HEAD back
to the branch.

It would be good to set up some kind of policy for what patches should
be acceptable.  Perhaps something like this already exists.

My suggestion is simply to make the golden rule:

"Programs built against libgcj 4.0.a should link correctly against
libgcj 4.0.b where a<b."


I think 4.0.x is meant for small safe bug-fixes and improvements.
So I think it is primarily the Release manager's job to set policy.
What you're saying is a necessary condition for including a patch,
but I'm not sure it's sufficient.
--
	--Per Bothner
per@bothner.com   http://per.bothner.com/

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