On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 10:14:30AM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: >On 3/9/25 04:41, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
... >> So all in all, I suppose the question is: are there modern replacements >> for all of the utilities shipped by smbios-utils? If not, and given >> smbios-utils now builds and works, are there any downsides in continuing >> to ship it in unstable and trixie? > >It's a lot of C code, and most if not all the functionality is covered >natively by the kernel in other ways. While it had static analysis done with >coverity a number of years back when I was at Dell I don't know how well it >has aged as other dependencies and libraries it uses have moved along. AFAICS in sid the only rdeps are other binaries from the libsmbios source package. It sounds like RM is the right answer? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...
