Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

From: Andrea Suisani <sickpig(at)opinioni(dot)net>
To: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage
Date: 2011-02-17 09:56:15
Message-ID: 4D5CF0BF.3090906@opinioni.net
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On 02/10/2011 11:34 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Per:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607109
>
> It seems we may have a problem to consider. As far as I know, we are the
> only major platform that supports libedit but our default is readline.
> Unfortunately readline is not compatible with OpenSSL (apparently?)
> licensing.
>
> This seems that it may be a problem for us considering the pre-package
> builds we do.
>
> What does everyone think? Should we work on getting libedit up to snuff?
>
> JD

on lwn.net there's a nice summary about this debate
you can read it at (*):

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/428111/36b6b26832f4309d/

Andrea

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