On 7/29/19 3:18 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
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,
Thank you for being accurate and informative.
--
Cheers,
Carlos.
