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Subject: Re: libutil in Debian
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2013/7/9 Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>:
> Create a symlink from libbsdutil.so -> libutil.so and libbsdutil.a ->
> libutil.a and change nothing else, including keeping -lutil?  I'm not
> entirely sure what that achieves, but it is harmless as far as I can
> see and creates no run-time ABI issues.

The problem is that right now, if we wanted to provide FreeBSD libutil
in Debian we'd have to rename it. Of course we could just make up an
arbitrary name and use that, but it would introduce a gratuitous
divergence, and the reason we want libutil in first place is that we
want to be more compatible with FreeBSD.

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Robert Millan