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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2016-09-21 16:27:14 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2016-09-21 16:27:14 +0200
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<arpa/nameser.h>: Remove RR type classification macros [BZ #20592]
The macros are no longer up-to-date, and the classification is not useful. In this particular case, removal without prior deprecation seems the right approach.
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@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ Version 2.25
only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
+* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
+ ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
+ <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
+ meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
+ thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
+
Security related changes:
On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which