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Re: [PATCH] pldd.1: Document glibc's unbreakage of tool.
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: "G. Branden Robinson" <g dot branden dot robinson at gmail dot com>
- Cc: mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com, linux-man at vger dot kernel dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 17:44:41 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] pldd.1: Document glibc's unbreakage of tool.
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* G. Branden Robinson:
>> I'm not sure if it makes sense to document this in the manual page.
>
> It might not; another resonable approach might be to nuke the "Bugs"
> section of the man page entirely. However, see below.
>
>> I expect that the fix will propagate to affected distributions fairly
>> quickly, now that it is available upstream.
>
> True for fast-moving distributions; as I noted in the commit message,
> Debian 10 has already got it backported to its glibc 2.29.
I'm pretty sure Debian 10 does not use glibc 2.28.
My point is that the glibc change will get backported, but any man-pages
change will not, so it will be quite some time until the latter shows up
on developer workstations. And due to glibc backporting, the version
information there will be misleading.
Thanks,
Florian