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Re: [PATCH COMMITTED] resolv: Turn historic name lookup functions into compat symbols
* Carlos O'Donell:
> On 02/16/2017 07:32 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Andreas Schwab:
>>
>>> On Feb 16 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 02/16/2017 01:38 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>>>> On Dez 30 2016, fweimer@redhat.com (Florian Weimer) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This change also removes the preprocessor-based function renaming.
>>>>>> It also applied to tests in resolv/, which ended up running against
>>>>>> the historic functions.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is missing a NEWS entry.
>>>>
>>>> How so? I truly wasn't aware that the change is user-visible.
>>>
>>> ekiga fails to build.
>>>
>>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:B:DVD/ekiga/standard/x86_64
>>
>> This seems to be a bogus configure check, probably a leftover from the
>> libc5 days. I don't the source code references to the
>> res_gethostbyaddr function itself.
>>
>> ypbind is another candidate for problems, but it's intimately tied to
>> glibc anyway and is thus a special case.
>>
>> I still don't think this warrants a NEWS entry.
>
> I agree, but it does need a distribution note in the 2.26 release wiki.
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.26#Packaging_Changes
Right, I added something to the end of:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.25