Bug#707802: libc-bin: ld.so(8) documents an option "supported by glibc2 for about one hour"

[Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>]

Package: libc-bin
Version: 2.17-1
Severity: minor

Hi,

ld.so(8) contains the following text:


    --ignore-rpath LIST
              Ignore RPATH and RUNPATH information in object  names  in LIST.
              This  option  has  been  supported by glibc2 for about one hour.
              Then it was renamed into:

       --inhibit-rpath LIST



The man page is correct, --ignore-rpath was introduced at 
Tue, 19 May 1998 23:18:44 +0000 [1] and renamed into --inhibit-rpath 
almost an hour later, at  Wed, 20 May 1998 00:15:00 +0000 [2].

But I cannot see any point in documenting that fact in the man page; the
information is pretty much useless and IMHO should be removed. 


Regards,
robert

[1] http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=310930c1b53bf795e62572d7b7f2fe384cbdc0d4
[2] http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=b0a01055eb0ff324fd5e2b44fa9687035e5f3204


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (200, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libc-bin depends on:
ii  libc6    2.17-1
ii  libcap2  1:2.22-1.2

libc-bin recommends no packages.

libc-bin suggests no packages.

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