On Fri, 17 May 2019, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 11:51 AM G. Branden Robinson > <g.branden.robinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What would you prefer? That the man page not document the bug at all? > > Was it a mistake in your view to have added the information about the > > bug to the man page in the first place? > > I think having the glibc upstream version information is useful. Likewise - if a bug is worth documenting there I think it's unavoidable that the version numbers describe when things changed in glibc upstream. What's more of an issue is when the BUGS section gets out of date or the descriptions of the conditions for an issue are misleading. pow(3) is a case in point; it says "On 64-bits" meaning "on systems using the generic implementation" (i.e., it's written from an assumption that x86_64 and i386 are the only architectures and that i386 is the default), and that issue was fixed in 2.28, while the "If x is negative" described there was both i386-specific (not mentioned as such) and fixed in 2.16. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
