Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> writes: > On 2007-08-27 11:54:44 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> daenzer@debian.org wrote: >> >> Any one knows why official PowerPC kernels are configured with >> >> CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS unset? This makes programs using some pty's >> >> fail to work. See bug 430632 for instance. >> >It might help if you asked the kernel team. :) CC added. >> I think we call these packages "badly broken". >> System V PTYs have been the standard for too many years to care about >> a few broken packages. > > 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. > But it seems that CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is no longer defined in > 2.6.22 for x86 either (it was defined in 2.6.18 for x86). Great! Removing it on all arches does seem to be the way to go, given that we have been using modern PTYs for quite a long time now. It will act as an incentive to get obsolete packages removed or fixed. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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