Hi, On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 10:27:23AM +0200, Joachim Wuttke wrote: > As upstream maintainer of libcerf, I would like to express > a clear preference for solving the conflict by withdrawing > cerf.3 and cerfc.3 from manpages-dev.
Next manpages Debian upload will stop installing both cerf.3 cerfc.3. > I already proposed this solution to upstream, > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80541 > where it has been received favorably, but not yet > definitively accepted. It might be helpful if somebody > expressed in the name of Debian that the matter is > somewhat urgent. > > I am opposed to the alternative solution of libcerf renaming > the functions cerf and cerfc. Any other names would be less > pertinent. There is no conflict with glibc. But there is a naming conflict, as the functions names are reserved by C99. > On the contrary, libcerf complements glibc in providing a missing > implementation. Should glibc one day provide an official implementation, > then the two functions will be immediately withdrawn from libcerf. -- Simon Paillard -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers
