Re: [PATCH 0/2] newlib/libc/time/strftime: table format fix man, tbl, groff multi-page table issues

Jon Turney <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 20/02/2023 20:25, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2023-02-20 02:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> On Feb 17 13:49, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> Brian Inglis (2):
>>>    newlib/libc/time/strftime.c: split table of conversion
>>>      specifiers to fix man, tbl, groff multi-page table issues
>>>    newlib/libc/Makefile.inc: sed fix strftime.3 table format
>>>      man, tbl, groff multi-page issues
>>>
>>>   newlib/libc/time/strftime.c | 3 ++-
>>>   newlib/libc/Makefile.inc    | 1 +
>>>   2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> 2.39.0
>>
>> Would you mind terribly to add more text to the commit messages?
>> explaining the problem, and its fix?  Just the subject line is quite
>> terse.
>>
>> For patch 1, why adding the split and what's the desired effect.  For
>> patch 2, what problem is the sed call fixing and what is the sed
>> expression doing?
> 
> Thanks Corinna, You're right - will redo all v3.

You should also describe why this must be fixed in this ad-hoc fasion, 
rather than in the chew markup or makedocbook.
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