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Re: Remove --disable-versioning
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 04:04:40 -0400
- Subject: Re: Remove --disable-versioning
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On 09/04/2013 11:28 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
>> The patch is fine, thanks.
>>
>> I just wonder whether it deserves a mention in the NEWS file.
>
> Given that the --disable-versioning support has been bitrotten for many
> years, I committed it without a NEWS mention. Though there's also a case
> for something like the previous entry
>
> * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
> Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
> before 2.6.
>
> for another case where long-bitrotten support for something was removed.
Please add a NEWS entry. While it is true that it was bitrotten, this
is the definitive point in which the feature was removed and we should
be clear about that to our users via the NEWS which goes out with the
release.
Cheers,
Carlos.