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They could, but what would be the advantage? Such patches couldn't be accepted by upstream, and the Debian/Redhat source packages are mostly only built by Debia
by caf 14y ago
They could, but what would be the advantage? Such patches couldn't be accepted by upstream, and the Debian/Redhat source packages are mostly only built by Debian/Redhat maintainers, so would the juice be worth the squeeze?
- hollerith 14y agoI don't claim to know what other upstream maintainers would've done, but if I had been one in the 1990s, and Debian and Redhat had agreed on a std for ld flags, I would've announced that libtool would be removed from my project in 24 months, so other Unix-likes should get on the train.