Bug#910252: ITP: libnbcompat -- NetBSD compatibility library

[Andrej Shadura <andrew@shadura.me>]

Hi,

On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 03:57, John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
> * Package name    : libnbcompat
>   Version         : 20180822
>   Upstream Author : Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@NetBSD.org> and the NetBSD PRoject
> * URL             : http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/pkgtools/libnbcompat/README.html
> * License         : BSD
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : NetBSD compatibility library
>
> libnbcompat is designed to let non-NetBSD operating systems execute code
> that is part of the NetBSD pkgsrc repository.  It is, in particular,
> required for building the NetBSD mtree, which has some distinct advantages
> over the FreeBSD mtree already in the Debian repos and is being adopted
> by FreeBSD.

I’m curious what parts of libnbcompat does it use? Is it possible that
you can link it against libbsd already in Debian?

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrej