[PATCH] Remove obsolete, never-implemented XSI STREAMS declarations

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 3/14/19 6:50 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Carlos O'Donell:
> 
>>> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
>>> index 0a3b6c7a5a..1e66be0d11 100644
>>> --- a/NEWS
>>> +++ b/NEWS
>>> @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
>>>    definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
>>>    since glibc 2.17.
>>>  
>>> +* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
>>> +  and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
>>
>> OK. This might break builds, should it get a packaging change entry here?
>> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.30#Packaging_Changes
> 
> So far, I've considered the wiki as cumulative regarding to the NEWS
> file.  So things covered in NEWS wouldn't have to be mentioned on the
> wiki.

That is correct.

The packaging changes in the wiki are intended for verbose and expanded
discussions on the topic. If you had a desire to expand on the topic
then the NEWS is not the place for that.

For example in the Packaging Changes you might call out:
~~~
The recent removal of XSI STREAMS may break the build of older applications
that were relying on the stropts.h header but not actually using it for
anything (cargo culting the include). In this case the fix is relatively
easy, you drop the include. If the application had optional support for
streams, but always compiled them in, then you need to check that there
way to disable the streams support, otherwise you need to remove it entirely.
In the past there was a Linux kernel module that implemented streams, but
streams are no longer a supported interface, and have been obsoleted in
POSIX.
~~~

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Cheers,
Carlos.