Re: [PATCH v3 05/13] ldconfig.8: Revise and update for glibc 2.32

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Hi Alex,

At 2023-01-06T02:21:27+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 1/5/23 23:52, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > * Comment out multiple paragraphs discussing libc4 and libc5 shared
> >    library support.  It was removed upstream in July; annotate
> >    commit.
[...]
> > +.\" Support for libc4 and libc5 dropped in
> > +.\" 8ee878592c4a642937152c8308b8faef86bcfc40 (2022-07-14) as "obsolete
> > +.\" for over twenty years".
> 
> I prefer removing the code completely.  Since removing code is more
> delicate, and to help whoever may want to investigate history in the
> future, please do so in a separate commit.  I guess it will be better
> if that commit removing code goes before the general revision of the
> page.

Okay, will do.  I dithered over it because the withdrawn support is such
a recent change.  But on the other hand it will take time for man-pages
6.02 (or what have you) to percolate out to distributors just as glibc
2.32 will.

Regards,
Branden

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