Re: [PATCH v3 05/13] ldconfig.8: Revise and update for glibc 2.32

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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Hi Branden,

On 1/6/23 08:20, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> At 2023-01-06T02:21:27+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>> On 1/5/23 23:52, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>>> * Comment out multiple paragraphs discussing libc4 and libc5 shared
>>>     library support.  It was removed upstream in July; annotate
>>>     commit.
> [...]
>>> +.\" Support for libc4 and libc5 dropped in
>>> +.\" 8ee878592c4a642937152c8308b8faef86bcfc40 (2022-07-14) as "obsolete
>>> +.\" for over twenty years".
>>
>> I prefer removing the code completely.  Since removing code is more
>> delicate, and to help whoever may want to investigate history in the
>> future, please do so in a separate commit.  I guess it will be better
>> if that commit removing code goes before the general revision of the
>> page.
> 
> Okay, will do.  I dithered over it because the withdrawn support is such
> a recent change.

While support was removed recently, it's something that was obsolete for 
decades, so probably there weren't many users (hopefully none).

>  But on the other hand it will take time for man-pages
> 6.02 (or what have you) to percolate out to distributors just as glibc
> 2.32 will.

For users of unstable distributions, we already have 6.02.  It took only one 
week or so from the day I released it.

alx@debian:~$ apt-cache show manpages-dev | head -n3
Package: manpages-dev
Source: manpages
Version: 6.02-1
Installed-Size: 3698
Maintainer: Dr. Tobias Quathamer <toddy@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Depends: manpages
Suggests: man-browser
Breaks: manpages (<< 6.01-1)
Description-en: Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development


> 
> Regards,
> Branden

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