On 5/17/19 5:56 PM, 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.
And so do I. My compromise in such cases is to write something like:
this:
BUGS
From glibc 2.19 to 2.29, pldd was broken: it just hung when exe‐
cuted. This problem was fixed in glibc 2.30, and the fix has been
backported to earlier glibc versions in some distributions.
Thanks,
Michael
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