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Re: obvious packages missing from debian?



Edward S. Peschko wrote:

>glibc is *notoriously* unportable. Not available on anything outside Hurd and Linux.
>The porting page says:

Debian currently only supports Linux and Hurd.

>libiconv on the other hand, is used by quite a few gnu projects..

No. iconv is used by quite a few gnu projects. On non-glibc platforms,
they may happen to use libiconv. On glibc platforms, they use glibc. As
noted above, Debian currently only supports Linux and Hurd. I'm entirely
failing to notice a problem here.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.devel@srcf.ucam.org



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