Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : libmqueue
Version : 4.41
Upstream Author : Michal Wronski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Krzysztof Benedyczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www-users.mat.uni.torun.pl/~wrona/posix_ipc/
* License : LGPL
Description : POSIX message queues library for Linux
POSIX message queues are part of IPC used to exchange messages between
processes. Since 2.6.6-rc1 it has been included into Linux kernel.
Message queues are implemented as a filesystem called mqueue. Library
adds appropriate interface to a mqueue filesystem which is compliant
with POSIX standard (IEEE Std 1003.1-2001).
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Note (not to be included in description):
This library has been included in glibc 2.3.4 (04/08/2004 in changelog)
and will no more actively maintaind by upstream as a separate library.
I'd like to package libmqueue before sarge to allow sarge users use this
feature (also, Debian's 2.6 kernel come with CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y).
The topic has been breifly discussed on -glibc[1] but I'd like to also
hear -devel opinions on how much mess could the inclusion of such
library cause, since as soon as sarge is released a glibc upgrade will
happen and I'll have to maintain an almost dead library for sarge only.
If the inclusion into main is not worth the efffort I can still provide
the library through other means (eg: mentors.debian.net)
Thanks
[1]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2004/07/msg00248.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB
