[Savannah-hackers] Re: libc in Savannah

[Andreas Jaeger]

Loic Dachary <address@hidden> writes:

> Andreas Jaeger writes:
>  > Loic Dachary <address@hidden> writes:
>  > 
>  > >        Hi,
>  > > 
>  > >        Please ignore the first mail reporting that glibc was integrated.
>  > > The prefered unix name is libc since it shows under this name in 
> subversions
>  > > and www.gnu.org. I manualy reverted to libc.
>  > > 
>  > >        Although you can see the source CVS tree with cvsweb, even members
>  > > of the libc project will *not* have write access to it, which make sense
>  > > since it's mirrored.
>  > > 
>  > >        Could you, please try to update the HTML pages from the CVS tree 
> and
>  > > let me know if you encounter problems ? 
>  > 
>  > Works fine now.  The only problem I noticed is that the ftp location
> 
>  Great :-) 
> 
>  > is ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libc - but in fact we use glibc here.  Could
>  > you changes this on the pages, please?   The link should really be
>  > ftp.gnu.org/pub/glibc.
> 
>  Would it be acceptable to you that I make a symbolic link on ftp.gnu.org
> that points libc to glibc ? I find important that the naming scheme is 
> coherent if possible. I'd better fix this case with a link than modify
> Savannah to support name inconsistencies as a rule. Let me know how you
> feel about this.

The name of the package is glibc.  Feel free to make a link if
changing the software is too difficult,

Andreas
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