Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage
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Msg-id 18693.1297904237@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> 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"?

The one in Fedora/RHEL and the one in Mac OSX both definitely consider
NetBSD to be the active upstream.  Dunno where Debian's other version
comes from.
        regards, tom lane


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