[Cc-ing d-devel and d-glibc to try to have full opinions] On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 08:48:36PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > 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) > > I think it's a bad idea to have debian be different from any distro. > Please patch it into Debian glibc or even better update Debian's glibc > to a not-stoneage version.
well, I don't think upgrading glibc now is a great idea. I'll take a look into trying to backport mqueue to glibc this weekend. Do glibc maintainers would accept such a patch? -- mattia :wq!
