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Re: [PATCH] Remove Roland McGrath et al. from libc.so banner
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 11:35:22 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove Roland McGrath et al. from libc.so banner
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On 09/01/2017 11:26 AM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 07/26/2017 03:04 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:24:24AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>>> I will check it today if there is no objection.
>>>>>
>>>>> H.J.
>>>>
>>>> There might be configure scripts in the wild that rely on the current
>>>> format of this banner, so please do not change it before the release.
>>>
>>> Did you mean that it can never be changed?
>>
>> I think the point was to avoid the change without giving distributions
>> time to catch up during a development cycle. For example in Fedora we
>> would catch this in Rawhide. So make the change as early as possible
>> when 2.27 opens.
>>
>
> This is what I am going to check in:
>
> * csu/version.c (banner): Remove "by Roland McGrath et al.".
> * nptl/Banner: Remove "by Ulrich Drepper et al.".
>
>
Looks good to me.
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Cheers,
Carlos.