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Drop localedef.1 --old-style description

PATCH Marko Myllynen 2 participants 2 messages Jun 11, 2016 – Jun 12, 2016 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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Hi Michael,

the glibc upstream decided to drop localedef(1) --old-style option [1] altogether, I think we can do the same with localedef(1), the option hasn't done anything in over 16 years and I doubt anyone uses it.

1) https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=6a54bcda7a2a64e465992a9984785443fd594743

---
 man1/localedef.1 | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
man1/localedef.1 +0 -3
index 204a7f6..f8b1f63 100644
@@ -216,9 +216,6 @@ the archive would be placed in
 Write the output files even if warnings were generated about the input
 file.
 .TP
-.B \-\-old\-style
-This option is a no-op and preserved only for backward compatibility.
-.TP
 .BR \-v ", " \-\-verbose
 Generate extra warnings about errors that are normally ignored.
 .TP

Thanks,

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Quoted 5 lines · Marko Myllynen

Hi Michael,

the glibc upstream decided to drop localedef(1) --old-style option [1] altogether, I think we can do the same with localedef(1), the option hasn't done anything in over 16 years and I doubt anyone uses it.

Thanks, Marko. Applied.

Cheers,

Michael

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1) https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=6a54bcda7a2a64e465992a9984785443fd594743

---
 man1/localedef.1 | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
man1/localedef.1 +0 -3
index 204a7f6..f8b1f63 100644
@@ -216,9 +216,6 @@ the archive would be placed in
 Write the output files even if warnings were generated about the input
 file.
 .TP
-.B \-\-old\-style
-This option is a no-op and preserved only for backward compatibility.
-.TP
 .BR \-v ", " \-\-verbose
 Generate extra warnings about errors that are normally ignored.
 .TP

Thanks,

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