FYI: Updating some GNU tools to newer versions

[James Carlson]

Danek Duvall writes:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:59:15AM -0700, George Vasick wrote:
> > I reviewed changes between the 1.4.2 and 1.4.12 version of the GNU m4 
> > preprocessor.  I found two new options:
[...]
> Perhaps a self-review case -- like a fast-track in terms of documentation,
> but considered sufficiently obvious and non-controversial that even a week
> is overkill for discussion time.

The changes described seem to me to fly below ARC radar.  They're just
a couple of debug options and some minor not-an-interface text
changes.

"Below the radar" means that you should be able to proceed with just
self-review, unless your RTI advocate tells you differently.

> Personally, if the new interfaces or compatible change to existing
> interfaces fall into obvious categories set up by previous ARC cases for a
> component (eg, "Command line options: Uncommitted") and all incompatible
> changes are to existing interfaces which are classified below Uncommitted,
> then I myself probably wouldn't bother filing a case at all, though I'm
> sure there will be a difference of opinion across the ARC community on
> that.

I don't think that's complete.  The ARC reviews architecture, not just
interface stability, so even if you're using all the "expected" values
for these bits, a change in system architecture will need to be
reviewed.

It's only when something doesn't amount to architecture that omitting
that step is fine.

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