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Bug#522773: possible solutions for __unused problem



On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 18:24 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Robert Millan dixit:
> 
> >I can see they wouldn't be excited about it, but they might also accept
> 
> You know that there are more than one BSD, but only one glibc,
> IIRC Drepper isn’t even its maintainer any more.

According to <http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/> "Ulrich Drepper is
currently the foremost contributor and has overall responsibility for
maintenance and development."

> Try persuading
> for example Theo de Raadt of anything which doesn’t have any
> immediate technical merit… have fun ;-)
> 
> Honestly, when resolving this I’d go for “who has the older
> rights”. Maybe look at how CSUR resolves different claims to
> the same part of the Unicode PUA, or something like that.
> Nevertheless, thanks on picking this up.

Debian GNU/Linux is the older system; the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
maintainers have to deal with compatibility issues.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer

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