On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 06:02:39PM +0100, Lexi Winter wrote:
> Konstantin Belousov:
> > The commit breaks libc ABI and must be reverted.
> > This email is the formal request to do so.
>  
> > To make it clear: despite the presence of symcompat versions, there is
> > no justification to remove the implementation.   Default version for
> > symbols might be removed, but the implementation shall be left alone.
>  
> okay, done.
Thank you.

> however, unless i removed more than i intended, none of
> this code works since it relies on keyserv (which was removed months
> ago), so it's basically dead code.
It depends on what user might do with its system.
Also, unless I mis-remember, the removal caused issues for linking xserver,
am I right?

> 
> > This is how we handle all other cases of obsoleted interfaces, gets()
> > being the exemplary case.
> 
> this is a little different from gets, since gets still worked even after
> the public interface was removed. 

The definition of 'worked' might vary.

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