On 2009-12-08 17:42, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
2009/12/8 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:I do hope not; this should never be used in production. But it may yet be useful in hardware development. Ben.I'm working on a parallel LCD interface with my custom PCB and I wanted interactive way to use parallel port. Found this decided to package it for myself and anyone else. Should my packaging be changed to i386 & amd64 only?
If libc provides these functions on every platform, then I'd say, "no"! OTOH, you might want to add to the Long Description a disclaimer mentioning possible cross-platform compatibility issues.
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