On Thursday 2018-06-21 20:00, Phil Sutter wrote: >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). iptables did fine with what it had for a long time. (No Make_global.am, just the _vcurrent line in configure.ac and a note in COMMIT_NOTES.) -- 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
