Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

On 02/10/2011 06:36 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Daniel Farina (drfarina@acm.org) wrote:
>> I have to admit, this change in debian packaging -- which I have
>> noticed, and not a little -- makes my hands angry. I considered
>> looking into the problem, but were I doing it, I would have considered
>> teaching psql to support NSS or GnuTLS as totally viable alternatives
>> to this problem, as to keep readline.
> Supporting GnuTLS would be really nice..  That's how we addressed the
> same issue w/ OpenLDAP (I was involved in that as a Debian
> co-maintainer).  GnuTLS has limitations too, but in the end, I find
> those more palatable (and the GnuTLS maintainer is certainly willing to
> work on improving it) than dropping readline. :/
>


Strikes me as a lot of work to buy nothing much.

cheers

andrew