[PATCH] [gold] Note gold and dwp deprecation in NEWS

[Jan Beulich]

On 17.01.2026 11:17, Tom de Vries wrote:
> 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
> ---
>  gold/NEWS | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

As no-one has responded here so far (I had kind of hoped Nick would), there
you go: Okay.

Jan

> --- 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
> 
> base-commit: 8fa65585b772775e8ffe14bbfa38917c5a804cac