On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 07:16:12AM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:24:37PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote: > > > If it just was rejected because it was an horrid kludge but still it > > works fine, then we should apply it in Debian since this bug is > > breaking all packages that need semaphores to build or work at all. > > It's not that simple - If the kludge is difficult to recover from, it > must NOT be included. This includes: RPC Changes, ABI/API > breakage/changes, hacks that prevent programs from running on other > non-Debian systems...
ok. > This patch mildly falls into this category, because it's adding a new > interface. Since it's likely that we'll switch to NPTL at some point, You mean Native POSIX Thread Library for Linux? Isn't it, well, for Linux? :) Or did they mean for GNU userland when they said "for Linux"? -- Robert Millan
