Re: locale.5: drop tel/fax description

[walter harms <wharms-fPG8STNUNVg@public.gmane.org>]

It should simply be noted that these fields are droped since glibc xyz

Others may support them and it is stil valid for older version.

re,
 wh


Am 07.03.2016 12:52, schrieb Marko Myllynen:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> 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?
> 
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=5453f739e5fae1f9235c3207a8604f164dc9e484
> 
> ---
>  man5/locale.5 | 8 --------
>  1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man5/locale.5 b/man5/locale.5
> index 0a26f91..cc6edf2 100644
> --- a/man5/locale.5
> +++ b/man5/locale.5
> @@ -569,14 +569,6 @@ the organization that maintains this document.
>  followed by the email address of the person or
>  organization that maintains this document.
>  .TP
> -.I tel
> -followed by the telephone number (in international format)
> -of the organization that maintains this document.
> -.TP
> -.I fax
> -followed by the fax number (in international format)
> -of the organization that maintains this document.
> -.TP
>  .I language
>  followed by the name of the language to which this document applies.
>  .TP
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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