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Bug#739695: Convenient copy of mtio.h in source



On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 01:30:23PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Package: mt-st
> 
> It is not clear what the impact would be, but I think it would be
> easier to maintain this package if the mtio.h copy would not be used
> and instead the system installed one would be used instead.

Thanks for the report.

> Here are the diff (as of today on wheezy):
> 
> $ diff -u mtio.h /usr/include/linux/mtio.h
> --- mtio.h 2008-02-20 20:31:49.000000000 +0100
> +++ /usr/include/linux/mtio.h 2014-01-11 01:15:51.000000000 +0100
> @@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
>  /*
>   * linux/mtio.h header file for Linux. Written by H. Bergman
>   *
> - * Sanitized version for mt/stinit (definitions not used by these
> - * programs have been removed) 7 Oct 2007/Kai Mäkisara

This is the part that makes me a bit suspicious - maybe there was more
to using a local file than including directly (unlikely, but…). I'll try
to ping the upstream, if he's still active, and get more info.

But yes, using the kernel header and build-depending on linux-libc-dev
makes sense.

thanks,
iustin

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