[PATCH v2] Remove union wait

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 03/30/2016 06:32 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I think the blocker here is clear consensus that a one-cycle removal of a
> feature from the API without any broadcasted deprecation period is OK.
> I'd like some other senior maintainers to explicitly agree with that before
> we go ahead based just on the direct review of the change itself.

IMO a one-cycle removal is OK IFF a distribution has gone through a full build
cycle with the deprecation patch applied and found no serious problems in the
existing corpus of package sources.

An example would be if Fedora Rawhide ran 4-6 months with the patch and nothing
fell out of the rebuild cycle.

Given that we have not done done a build cycle in a distribution I think the
most conservative step is a staged removal. I think your original instinct is
the best way forward e.g. removal in 2.25.

Please remember to write notes under 2.24's packaging changes:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.24#Packaging_Changes

Which detail the changes that packages need to make to migrate away from the
old interface to the new interface.

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Cheers,
Carlos.