[6/6] Add NEWS item for gconv-modules.d change

Message ID 20210610111853.2286873-7-siddhesh@sourceware.org
State Dropped
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Series gconv configuration parsing cleanups |

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Siddhesh Poyarekar June 10, 2021, 11:18 a.m. UTC
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 NEWS | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
  

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Siddhesh Poyarekar June 10, 2021, 11:37 a.m. UTC | #1
On 6/10/21 4:48 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar via Libc-alpha wrote:
> ---
>   NEWS | 6 ++++++
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 1bf3daa502..605d53b256 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ Major new features:
>     __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
>     defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
>   
> +* Configuration files for iconv converter modules have moved from the single
> +  gconv-modules file to a directory gconv-modules.d containing multiple
> +  configuration files with names ending with .conf.  The configuration parser
> +  continues to also support parsing the gconv-modules file in $GCONV_PATH for
> +  backward compatibility.
> +
>   Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
>   
>   * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
> 

I'll update and post the NEWS separately once I reach consensus with 
Andreas on the structure of the config files.

Siddhesh
  

Patch

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1bf3daa502..605d53b256 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@  Major new features:
   __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
   defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
 
+* Configuration files for iconv converter modules have moved from the single
+  gconv-modules file to a directory gconv-modules.d containing multiple
+  configuration files with names ending with .conf.  The configuration parser
+  continues to also support parsing the gconv-modules file in $GCONV_PATH for
+  backward compatibility.
+
 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
 
 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs