libutil in Debian

[Robert Millan]

2013/7/9 Justin Hibbits <jhibbits at freebsd.org>:
> I was thinking more in terms of adding the functions to the debian local
> patch set.  I don't know how intrusive it would be, but it may be worth
> looking into.

You may not believe this, but it is even worse. Can you believe they
even refused to add trivial syscall stubs, such as nlm_syscall()? They
say this "belongs elsewhere" even though it's -lc in FreeBSD like most
(all?) syscall stubs.

Look at the kind of workarounds we have to endure:

http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/glibc-bsd/trunk/freebsd-utils/debian/patches/036_nfs_glibc.diff?revision=4047&view=markup

Heck, even the trivial update to <sys/queue.h>, which was *already* of
BSD origin since ancient times, was restricted to only apply on our
port, so that the new macros (e.g. LIST_FOREACH_SAFE) were not
available on Debian GNU/Linux.

I'm sorry, I really appreciate your intent but I think there's zero
chance of this working through Debian patchset to Glibc.

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Robert Millan