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Re: [PATCH] Remove Roland McGrath et al. from libc.so banner
On 07/26/2017 03:04 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:24:24AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>> I will check it today if there is no objection.
>>>
>>> H.J.
>>
>> There might be configure scripts in the wild that rely on the current
>> format of this banner, so please do not change it before the release.
>
> Did you mean that it can never be changed?
I think the point was to avoid the change without giving distributions
time to catch up during a development cycle. For example in Fedora we
would catch this in Rawhide. So make the change as early as possible
when 2.27 opens.
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Cheers,
Carlos.