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Re: [PATCH COMMITTED] resolv: Turn historic name lookup functions into compat symbols
On 02/16/2017 07:32 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Andreas Schwab:
>
>> On Feb 16 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/16/2017 01:38 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>>> On Dez 30 2016, fweimer@redhat.com (Florian Weimer) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This change also removes the preprocessor-based function renaming.
>>>>> It also applied to tests in resolv/, which ended up running against
>>>>> the historic functions.
>>>>
>>>> This is missing a NEWS entry.
>>>
>>> How so? I truly wasn't aware that the change is user-visible.
>>
>> ekiga fails to build.
>>
>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:B:DVD/ekiga/standard/x86_64
>
> This seems to be a bogus configure check, probably a leftover from the
> libc5 days. I don't the source code references to the
> res_gethostbyaddr function itself.
>
> ypbind is another candidate for problems, but it's intimately tied to
> glibc anyway and is thus a special case.
>
> I still don't think this warrants a NEWS entry.
I agree, but it does need a distribution note in the 2.26 release wiki.
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.26#Packaging_Changes
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Cheers,
Carlos.