On Oct 21, Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> wrote: > > > and build process is a mess. The upstream developer is one of the > > > kernel network stack maintainers, and he wants the iputils package to > > > always work with the latest and greatest kernel functionality. As a > > > result, he includes lots of kernel headers in his programs rather than > > > using standard headers from /usr/include. > > So what? There is nothing wrong with this. > Tell that to the hurd or kFreeBSD people. I could not care less about hurd or kFreeBSD, sorry. But I care a lot about having a working and up to date iputils package for my Linux systems, and I do not want Debian to fork it unless there is a very good reason. Supporting a toy unreleased OS is not one. If the iputils package is too much Linux-specific maybe the hurd or kFreeBSD people should use different implementations for their systems. -- ciao, Marco
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