Bug 1615608

Summary: Remove abort() warning in manual.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Carlos O'Donell <codonell>
Component: glibcAssignee: Carlos O'Donell <codonell>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 29CC: arjun, codonell, dj, fweimer, law, mfabian, pfrankli, rth, siddhesh
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Description Carlos O'Donell 2018-08-13 20:32:04 UTC 
The GNU C Library manual has a warning under the abort() API that doesn't immediately serve the needs of glibc users. The warning is a political commentary on the US global gag rule about abortion information.

The warning was temporarily removed upstream, but was put back, and will remain upstream until consensus is reached upstream over the warning's removal. Fedora's position doesn't have to follow upstream and we can remove the warning from the manual.

Given that the warning is confusing international users, and doesn't really make sense in a technical manual for Fedora, the plan is to remove the warning from the manual. The warning is not in an invariant section and so it can be removed.

The plan for Rawhide (F29), F28, and F27 is to remove the warning.

The primary reasons for removal:

* It's confusing.

  - Confused developer 6 months ago with ~900 views.
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48445031/why-would-it-be-illegal-to-inform-about-abort

  - Culturally irrelevant and doesn't reach non-US audience.
  https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d4783/federal_censorship_regulations_may_restrict/ 

* It's the wrong venue (poor audience reach)

  - Consider what gnome does, and makes public statements:
  https://www.gnome.org/news/2017/06/the-gnome-foundation-statment-on-immigration-ban/

* It offends and is not inclusive.

  - At least two women have posted on the public libc-alpha list that the warning is inappropriate since it makes light of a serious topic.

  - Not all jokes/sattire/puzzles should be removed, but certainly confusing ones with poor audience reach will be removed to improve the manual.
Comment 1 Carlos O'Donell 2018-08-14 02:49:55 UTC 
Fixed in Rawhide (F29) for glibc-2.28-5.fc29.

This bug will be reused for the F28 and F27 fixes.
Comment 2 Jan Kurik 2018-08-14 08:34:15 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle.
Changing version to '29'.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2018-08-29 12:09:53 UTC 
glibc-2.27-32.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-fb2271134d
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2018-08-29 12:55:13 UTC 
glibc-2.26-30.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-c1ef35a4f9
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2018-08-30 04:23:39 UTC 
glibc-2.26-30.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-c1ef35a4f9
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2018-08-30 05:55:16 UTC 
glibc-2.27-32.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-fb2271134d
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2018-09-02 05:56:16 UTC 
glibc-2.27-32.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2018-09-07 15:24:23 UTC 
glibc-2.26-30.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.