On January 18, 2016 12:57:27 PM EST, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: ... >I'm all in favor of this, but when working on this, please take the >concerns of upstream into account. libbsd is readily available on >Debian, >but I don't know if that's the case on the other systems that upstream >is >trying to support, so they're going to be understandably worried about >portability. ...
I looked into this a last year or possibly the year before when I was trying to get an upstream to drop embedded copies of functions provided by libbsd. I found it was packaged for all major Linux distributions, enough coverage to get the upstream in question to just depend on it being available. Scott K
