[PATCH] Remove Roland McGrath et al. from libc.so banner

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Fri Sep 1 16:27:00 GMT 2017


On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/26/2017 03:04 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:24:24AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>> I will check it today if there is no objection.
>>>>
>>>> H.J.
>>>
>>> There might be configure scripts in the wild that rely on the current
>>> format of this banner, so please do not change it before the release.
>>
>> Did you mean that it can never be changed?
>
> I think the point was to avoid the change without giving distributions
> time to catch up during a development cycle. For example in Fedora we
> would catch this in Rawhide. So make the change as early as possible
> when 2.27 opens.
>

This is what I am going to check in:

* csu/version.c (banner): Remove "by Roland McGrath et al.".
* nptl/Banner: Remove "by Ulrich Drepper et al.".


-- 
H.J.
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