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Re: Delete abortion joke
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>, rain1 at airmail dot cc
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 08:40:59 -0400
- Subject: Re: Delete abortion joke
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On 04/28/2018 01:58 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 1:07 PM, <rain1@airmail.cc> wrote:
>>
>> I propose the following patch, which deletes the abortion joke from the
>> glibc manual. The joke does not provide any useful information about the
>> abort() function so removing it will not hinder use of glibc.
>
> Ugh, is that still there? It wasn't funny twenty years ago and it's
> only gotten less funny since. I'm in favor of removing it. Any
> objections?
I'm with Florian and Paul, the joke is not in an invariant section (which
I would also like to remove, but that's another story), and is not appropriate
for a technical manual. I had never noticed the joke myself or I would have
proposed removal earlier.
Please remove the joke in a single commit and not mix the removal with
anything else.
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Cheers,
Carlos.