status of 0.9.30 release

[Rob Landley]

On Sunday 07 September 2008 17:07:15 Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 09:56:13AM +0200, Carmelo Amoroso wrote:
> >Indeed I've few pending patches to push that may be worth
> >including in .30 release.
> >
> >- locale supports fixes
> >- an optimized sh4 memcpy implementation (currently used
> >   since a long time in uclibc-nptl, glibc and kernel)
> >- getdents
>
> - cleanup the libm problem. Either remove the problematic powerpc bits
>   or get written permission from Apple so
>   that "(C) Apple. All rights reserved" can be fixed to state that it's
>   actually BSD or LGPL or PD. We should not postpone to fix that up, the
>   0.9.30 release should not be shipped with this problem, imho.

Unresolved license issues should never have been _checked_in_.  Who did that 
and why?  (Could you point me to the svn commit?)

>   Since i don't need those powerpc bits, i suggest they should be
>   removed now. If somebody complains then she should submit a fixed
>   version.

Poke IBM?

Also, the gentoo developers have their own improved libm, based on Peter 
Mazinger's work and backported on top of 0.9.28 (as far as I know).  I should 
ping Solar about that...

Rob