On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 07:35:18PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Thursday 2018-06-21 17:05, Phil Sutter wrote: > >> >> >+# This is _NOT_ the library release version, it's an API version. > >> >> >+# Extracted from Chapter 6 "Library interface versions" of the libtool docs. > >> >> > >> >> I don't know if this chapter 6 reference blurb really helps; > >> >> most of the time it didn't. [iptables, ipset, the things that had the file > >> >> for a long time] > >> > > >> >Hmm, but I guess dropping it without replacement will make it even > >> >worse. > >> > >> But would it? There is a lack of data to support that. > > > >OK, so what do you suggest then? > > I think it should be left as-is — and perhaps even redact the paragraph from > well-aged code bases like iptables etc. You mean dropping it? Are there factual errors in it? To me it seems like valid documentation (although a bit unclear in certain parts). Cheers, Phil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
