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Date:      Tue, 28 Feb 2017 13:39:12 -0600
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd@gmail.com>
To:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Ravi Pokala <rpokala@mac.com>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r314373 - in head: . etc/defaults etc/rc.d lib/libc/regex share/man/man4/man4.i386 share/man/man5 sys/amd64/conf sys/boot/forth sys/compat/svr4 sys/conf sys/dev/streams sys/i386/conf sy...
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> wrote:

>   Ravi,
>
>   this should go into Relnotes, my failure that I didn't put the tag.
>
> I don't think this deserves UPDATING entry, since it doesn't require
> any action from a person who updates from sources.
>
> I don't think this requires __FreeBSD_version bump, since the latter
> is used to assist compilation of open source application that use
> changed API. The change removed support to run binaries.
>

That is not the only use of __FreeBSD_version, which is (at least) exposed
to the ports collection and can cause conditional changes in what are
shipped by ports.
Which is not to say that any current ports ship affected binaries, of
course, but just to point out that the scope of the symbol is broader than
stated.

-Ben



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