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Re: Removing old notes from the source tree
- From: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
- To: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 08:07:26 -0400
- Subject: Re: Removing old notes from the source tree
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On 08/06/2017 12:15 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> There are several files in the top level of the source tree containing
> old notes about bugs, standards conformance, etc. These have, in
> general, not been updated in at least five years. The information in
> them _may_ still be relevant, but it's clear that they are not being
> looked at where they are. To the extent it is still relevant, I think
> the manual and/or the wiki are better homes.
>
> BUGS -> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/OldNotes/Bugs
> CONFORMANCE -> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/OldNotes/Conformance
> NAMESPACE -> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/ReservedNamePatterns
> WUR-REPORT -> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/OldNotes/WarnUnusedResult
...
> README.pretty-printers ->
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Debugging/Pretty_Printers
> README.tunables -> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Tunables
There having been no objections, I deleted BUGS, CONFORMANCE, NAMESPACE,
and WUR-REPORT, and I moved README.pretty-printers and README.tunables
into the manual directory. I did not create a changelog entry, which
seems to be usual for this kind of file.
zw