| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Michael Banck <mbanck(at)debian(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage |
| Date: | 2011-02-17 00:33:19 |
| Message-ID: | 1297902799.991.220.camel@jd-desktop |
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On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 00:28 +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > There appear to be two people working periodically on the upstream NetBSD libedit: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libedit/?sortby=date
> >
> > And a third who periodically packages that at http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/
>
> I'm really confused between libedit and libeditline. They both appear
> to be in Debian and I think they both trace their lineage to the
> original BSD library. Was one the NetBSD maintained one and the other
> the "upstream"?
>
> > I find it hard to get excited about working to replace the software that has
> > a reasonable license here (readline) rather than trying to eliminate
> > dependence on the one with an unreasonable license (OpenSSL).
>
> Personally I find there are plenty of technical reasons to run
> screaming from OpenSSL anyways.
>
Maybe we really should consider moving to NSS insread?
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
If it solves the license problem, it is well supported etc..
JD
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