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Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)



On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:50:16PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:

>   I fully support Guillem changes. C99 is almost 10 years old, we're
> coding dpkg for Debian, in a sane C99/POSIX/X-OPEN/whatever
> environment.

Hmm... Not really. GCC's default mode is still C89+GNU extensions. It
is true that the GNU extensions overlap C99 somewhat. But this does
not destroy the validity of your claim (that dpkg is coded for a
relatively decently modern compiler).

-- 
Lionel


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