Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 00:28 +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.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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