Re: Merging ‘core-updates’ real soon

[Kaelyn]

On Thursday, August 29th, 2024 at 12:53 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> 
wrote:

> 
> 
> Ludovic Courtès ludo@gnu.org skribis:
> 
> > If there are no objections, I’d like us to go ahead and rebase/merge
> > ‘core-updates’ tomorrow, Friday 30th, after adding an entry in
> > ‘etc/news.scm’ (I can do that but I won’t mind if somebody else does; we
> > can coordinate on IRC and/or here.)
> 
> 
> Here’s a proposed news entry:
> 
> (entry (commit "XXX")
> (title
> (en "Core packages updated"))
> (body
> (en "Core packages have been updated, in particular those that
> are used to build every other package in the distribution. Noteworthy
> upgrades include:
> 
> @itemize
> @item @code{glibc} 2.39 (was 2.35);
> @item @code{gcc} 11.4.0 as the default compiler (was 11.3.0);
> @item @code{binutils} 2.41 (was 2.38);
> @item @code{make} 4.4.1 (was 4.3);
> @item TeX@tie{}Live 2024.2 (was 20230313);
> @end itemize
> 
> Additional improvements were made to the build system and related
> packages and tools:
> 
> @itemize
> @item
> the @code{glibc} package now includes the @code{C.UTF-8} locale,
> suitable for use when a UTF-8-capable is necessary regardless of any

Overall the news entry looks good to me. However, you have a missing word on 
the above line--it reads "when a UTF-8-capable is necessary", and I believe it 
should read "when a UTF-8-capable locale is necessary".

Cheers,
Kaelyn

> language or regional convention;
> @item
> origins that include patches are now repacked with zstd instead of xz,
> which uses less CPU power and memory, both when compressing and when
> decompressing;
> @item
> @code{copy-recursively} has a new @code{#:select?} parameter.
> @end itemize
> 
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> 
> Did I forget anything important here?
> 
> If not, translations welcome!
> 
> Ludo’.