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Re: [PATCH] pldd.1: Document glibc's unbreakage of tool.

From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com>, "G. Branden Robinson" <g dot branden dot robinson at gmail dot com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, linux-man <linux-man at vger dot kernel dot org>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 15:27:51 -0400
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pldd.1: Document glibc's unbreakage of tool.
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On 7/29/19 3:18 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:

On 5/17/19 5:56 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 11:51 AM G. Branden Robinson
<g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:

What would you prefer?  That the man page not document the bug at all?
Was it a mistake in your view to have added the information about the
bug to the man page in the first place?


I think having the glibc upstream version information is useful.


And so do I. My compromise in such cases is to write something like:
this:

BUGS
        From  glibc  2.19 to 2.29, pldd was broken: it just hung when exe‐
        cuted.  This problem was fixed in glibc 2.30, and the fix has been
        backported to earlier glibc versions in some distributions.

Thanks,


Thank you for being accurate and informative.

--
Cheers,
Carlos.

References:
- Re: [PATCH] pldd.1: Document glibc's unbreakage of tool.
  - From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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