[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Oct 21, Noah Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > and build process is a mess. The upstream developer is one of the >> > > kernel network stack maintainers, and he wants the iputils package to >> > > always work with the latest and greatest kernel functionality. As a >> > > result, he includes lots of kernel headers in his programs rather than >> > > using standard headers from /usr/include. >> > So what? There is nothing wrong with this. >> Tell that to the hurd or kFreeBSD people.
> I could not care less about hurd or kFreeBSD, sorry. > But I care a lot about having a working and up to date iputils package > for my Linux systems, and I do not want Debian to fork it unless there > is a very good reason. Supporting a toy unreleased OS is not one. Folding the headers into the package does not advance this goal, it retards it. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
