[PATCH] Add comment to gethnamaddr.c to warn that the file is unmaintained

[Andreas Schwab]

"Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com> writes:

> On 07/01/2014 10:23 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Looks like it can't be removed.  The file is linked into libresolv.so
>>> and it exports some _gethst* and res_gethost* functions, that are not
>>> documented so I'm assuming we don't knowingly support them.
>> 
>> I think we should deprecate these interfaces then.
>
> I'm not opposed to that, however, someone needs to think deeply about
> this and the applications the might use these interfaces.

Of the 68 packages (out of 22462) in openSUSE:Factory that depend on
libresolv.so.2 none of them reference any of the symbols exported from
that file.

> Seems like a bad thing to do just before a freeze.

Sure, that's 2.21 material.

Andreas.

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