On Tue, 2023-04-25 at 17:49 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > The man page still has '-p' and '-i', so that's at least a
> > documentation bug.
> 
> The options are still accepted.  They just don't produce the
> same output they did with a non-upstream patch.
> 
> Changed output across a major release isn't all that
> unreasonable -- even if it may be annoying to anyone who has
> come to rely on that output. :)
> 
> Those options were marked as non-portable for many years
> (since 2015, according to the BZ referenced in the git
> commit which dropped the patch).  Using them on non-Fedora
> systems would already be likely to produce different
> results.
> 
> Considering there is an option which provides the same
> output that has worked for many years:
> 
>     s/uname -p/uname -m/
> 
> shouldn't be too much of an issue.
> 
> Whether they should be removed entirely from the code and
> docs is likely something to discuss with the upstream
> coreutils project.

I'd call this disingenuous. If the behaviour of the options has
changed, the documentation should change to reflect that. Keeping or
removing them is a separate issue.

poc
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