Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

2011/2/14 Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 13:37, Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 02/10/2011 11:34 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Anybody realized that this Debian bug (and several others) got closed in
>> the mean time (Sunday)?  According to the changelog [1], Martin Pitt
>> (which I'm CC'ing here, as he might not be aware of this thread, yet)
>> worked around this issue by pre-loading readline via LD_PRELOAD for psql.
>>
>> Personally, I'm a bit suspicious about that solution (technically as
>> well as from a licensing perspective), but it's probably the simplest
>> way to let only psql link against readline.
>
> That is a rather ugly workaround, but if it works and actually fixes
> the license considerations, then it's at least better than nothing at
> all.

Yes!

>
> Not sure it's a reason not to have our own packaging (mainly because
> we could provide the version compatibility mix), but it would
> certainly reduce the urgency.

I agree.
"Consider providing debian packages at debian.postgresql.org"
Do we push that on the TODO list ?

I believe it can come promptly after the extension stuff is done :)

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