Re: Bug#534398: ITP: libposix -- unifed implementation of core functionality of all Unix systems
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:02:26AM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
> * Package name : libposix
Why?
This is a subset of the interfaces provided by glibc, which must be present
on all systems. So it would be stupid for any package in Debian to link
against libposix instead of just using libc. Why do we want a library in
Debian that no packages should depend on?
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