[RFC][PATCH v4 06/11] Provide backward compatibility for strftime family (bug 10871).
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Fri Nov 4 13:40:00 GMT 2016
On 10/28/2016 02:49 AM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> As %OB format specifier has been added to strftime/wcsftime
> family of functions backward compatibility implementation must be
> provided for older binaries which assume that %B returns
> a month name in the nominative case.
I think this is a misuse of symbol versioning. Why would I want to pick
up this change when compiling from source, but not for existing binaries?
Florian
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