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.