[binutils-gdb] [gold] Note gold and dwp deprecation in NEWS

[Tom de Vries]

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ad6e67cf58d2d8607a3f818c425e46b6f6d2c787

commit ad6e67cf58d2d8607a3f818c425e46b6f6d2c787
Author: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
Date:   Thu Feb 5 12:11:34 2026 +0100

    [gold] Note gold and dwp deprecation in NEWS
    
    Gold has been deprecated, and by extension dwp as well.
    
    Make this situation clear in gold/NEWS.
    
    Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32911

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 gold/NEWS | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gold/NEWS b/gold/NEWS
index 611d7cbb722..631de5a4a8f 100644
--- a/gold/NEWS
+++ b/gold/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+Deprecation notice:
+
+* The gold linker has been deprecated [1].  Alternatives are GNU's ld, LLVM's
+  lld, and mold.
+* By extension, dwp has been deprecated.  An alternative is LLVM's llvm-dwp.
+  Elfutils has proposed an eu-dwp [2], but at release 0.194 it doesn't exist
+  yet.
+* Both these components will eventually be removed, unless volunteers (for
+  either one or both components) step forward and offer to continue
+  development and maintenance.
+
+[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-02/msg00001.html
+[2] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31360
+
+Changes since 1.16:
+
 * gold and dwp now support zstd compressed debug sections.
 
 * The new option --compress-debug-sections=zstd compresses debug sections with