Re: locale.5: drop tel/fax description

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 03/08/2016 10:59 AM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> On 2016-03-07 19:48, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On 07 Mar 2016 13:52, Marko Myllynen wrote:
>>> glibc upstream recently deemed that the tel/fax fields are not useful
>>> and dropped them from the few locales which had them defined. Do you
>>> think we could/should drop the descriptions from the man page as well?
>>
>> the fields are technically still supported, we've just emptied them out.
>> i would add a note saying that their use is discouraged in favor of the
>> other fields like e-mail.
> 
> Fair enough, how about this?

Applied, thanks.

Michael
 
> ---
>  man5/locale.5 | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man5/locale.5 b/man5/locale.5
> index 0a26f91..ef97f00 100644
> --- a/man5/locale.5
> +++ b/man5/locale.5
> @@ -572,10 +572,14 @@ organization that maintains this document.
>  .I tel
>  followed by the telephone number (in international format)
>  of the organization that maintains this document.
> +As of glibc 2.24, this keyword is deprecated in favor of
> +other contact methods.
>  .TP
>  .I fax
>  followed by the fax number (in international format)
>  of the organization that maintains this document.
> +As of glibc 2.24, this keyword is deprecated in favor of
> +other contact methods.
>  .TP
>  .I language
>  followed by the name of the language to which this document applies.
> 
> Thanks,
> 


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