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Re: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set on PowerPC



Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:

Hi,

> OK. But CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS was defined in official Debian x86
> kernels, so that most maintainers probably could not see the
> problems, and it could take months/years to get them fixed.

Err, switching for BSD PTYs to POSIX PTYs is not hard at all, so if
packages "take years" to get fixed it's either because they're
unmaintained or nobody cares about them. In both cases they should be
removed from the distribution.

JB.

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