Re: Remove cdrtools
Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> wrote:
> On 16-Aug-06, 04:00 (CDT), Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu> wrote:
>> This will never work. Real life example from a couple of weeks ago: I
>> wrote a program that was running happily on Sarge, then somebody wanted
>> to build it on RHEL and failed because the UUID library on RHEL does not
>> have uuid_unparse_lower().
>
> So you chose to use a function not reliably available. Sounds like bad
> planning to me.
Yeah, wanting to use functionality when it's available is always a
dreadful idea. Far better to reimplement it locally in order to ensure
that we have more copies of it to fix should there ever be any sort of
security flaw.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.devel@srcf.ucam.org
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