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Subject: Re: Good idea to rename files in include/uapi/ ?
To:     Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
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Am 22.06.20 um 13:37 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
> 
> On Monday 2020-06-15 01:34, Alexander A. Klimov wrote:
>>>
>>> A header file rename is no problem. We even have dummy headers
>> Hmm.. if I understand all of you correctly, David, Stefano, Pablo and Al say
>> like no, not a good idea, but only you, Jan, say like should be no problem.
>>
>> Jan, do you have anything like commit messages in mainline or public emails
>> from maintainers confirming your opinion?
> 
> I had already given the commit with the (email) message:
> 
>>> Just look at xt_MARK.h, all it does is include xt_mark.h. Cf.
>>> 28b949885f80efb87d7cebdcf879c99db12c37bd .
In that commit no .h file disappeared.