[v2,6/6] Add NEWS item for gconv-modules.d change
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NEWS | 8 ++++++++
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Siddhesh Poyarekar via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org> writes:
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 58cf1dab68..cadc40262f 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -39,6 +39,14 @@ Major new features:
> supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is only
> enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum version of 5.1.
>
> +* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
> + essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
> + configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
> + in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
> + may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
> + with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
> + that directory.
> +
LGTM
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
@@ -39,6 +39,14 @@ Major new features:
supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is only
enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum version of 5.1.
+* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
+ essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
+ configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
+ in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
+ may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
+ with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
+ that directory.
+
Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs