| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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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>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Michael Banck <mbanck(at)debian(dot)org>, jd <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage |
| Date: | 2011-02-17 00:57:17 |
| Message-ID: | 18693.1297904237@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> 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"?
The one in Fedora/RHEL and the one in Mac OSX both definitely consider
NetBSD to be the active upstream. Dunno where Debian's other version
comes from.
regards, tom lane
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