On 2023-05-14, at 15:00:06 +0800, Blair Noctis wrote: > On 2023/5/14 03:24, Jeremy Sowden wrote: > > I came across linenoise because of a request to support it in nftables. > > The request came from someone who wanted to install nftables in a > > resource-constrained environment where the existing libreadline support > > was too heavyweight. In the case of osquery, would it possible to go > > the other way? Do you think that upstream would be open to adding > > support for libreadline if we offered patches? > > Feasible on the resource level I think, it links to many libraries anyway. But > for using readline… they actually switched away from it in 2016: > https://github.com/osquery/osquery/pull/2613 > > Considering their rather radical approach of vendoring everything, I don't have > too much hope for that. Ah, right. So much for that idea! It occurs to me that it might make more sense for you to take the lead in packaging linenoise since you have an interest in getting it into Debian. Would you like me to transfer ownership of the ITP bug to you? Happy to lend a hand if you need one. J.
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