On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:52 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I think it's Debian's problem, not ours, if that doesn't work. It is
> not unreasonable for a package to probe existence of a library function
> at configure time. It's up to them to make sure that the headers match
> the actual library.
That seems like an unhelpful attitude. Debian is a mainstream
platform, and no doubt feels that they have important reasons for what
they are doing.
That's not to say that I'm against the patch, but I don't believe it's
right to treat the concerns of mainstream Linux distributions in
anything less than a serious manner.
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