Re: [PATCH] pldd.1: Document glibc's unbreakage of tool.

[walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>]

Am 13.05.2019 11:48, schrieb Florian Weimer:
> * G. Branden Robinson:
> 
>>  .SH BUGS
>> -Since glibc 2.19,
>> +From glibc 2.19 to 2.29,
>>  .B pldd
>> -is broken: it just hangs when executed.
>> -.\" FIXME . https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18035
>> -It is unclear if it will ever be fixed.
>> +was broken: it just hung when executed.
>> +.\" glibc commit 1a4c27355e146b6d8cc6487b998462c7fdd1048f
>> +This problem was fixed in glibc 2.30.
> 
> I'm not sure if it makes sense to document this in the manual page.  I
> expect that the fix will propagate to affected distributions fairly
> quickly, now that it is available upstream.  It's certainly more likely
> that users will receive a glibc update with the fix than a manpage
> update with this change.
> 

IMHO it should be noted in the BUGS section.
You can not rely that you have always the lastest version of libc
(at least i do not have) but you may notice a different behavior
and it is simply very helpful to have a hint that certain versions
are broken. (if someone cares: my problem was with a64l. It suddenly
changed behavior ...)

just my 2 cents,
re,
 wh