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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2016-10-04 11:52:10 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2016-12-31 18:55:14 +0100
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resolv: Deprecate the "inet6" option and RES_USE_INET6 [BZ #19582]
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@@ -148,6 +148,11 @@ Version 2.25
   in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.  They were already
   unimplemented.
 
+* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
+  _res.flags are deprecated.  The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
+  removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
+  2553.  Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
+
 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
   <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
   decode the data part of DNSSEC record types.  Previous versions of glibc