From: Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl vs. Debian policy
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 16:04:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130307160417.86e9d017.idunham@lavabit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK4o1WyQ3g3Txvpht0HHQv1shOw0259L-Drk788U4RFjEsbs_g@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 18:56:35 +0000
Justin Cormack <justin@specialbusservice.com> wrote:
>
> What is the idea of packaging Musl for Debian? I can see several options
> but none of them seem very plausible. No other package is likely to require
> Musl. A Musl based Debian might be nice but that's a very different
> requirement. Maybe I am missing something.
Mainly the same reason they include klibc, dietlibc, and uclibc-source: a small libc for initrds, small static binaries, and cross-compilation.
mksh, ngetty, and slidentd all refer to use of dietlibc, and klibc is used for initrds.
musl's policy about maintaining ABI and availability as a shared library may prove advantageous to Debian, also.
Up till now I've been speaking about reasons a musl package would be useful within a libc6-based distro; but a musl package is necessary for a Debian musl port. A good number of embedded systems start off Debian, Emdebian, or the uclibc port of Debian. The ability to build a Debian system based around musl may aid in adoption of musl, and Debian's attitude towards compatability makes it a good place to start.
I should note that with multiarch, it actually would be possible to use a prepackaged musl for cross-compilation.
HTH,
Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-08 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-06 23:29 Isaac Dunham
2013-03-07 13:04 ` Rich Felker
2013-03-07 18:17 ` Christian Neukirchen
2013-03-07 18:45 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-07 18:49 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2013-03-08 0:41 ` Rich Felker
2013-03-08 15:13 ` Christian Neukirchen
2013-03-09 1:27 ` Rich Felker
2013-03-09 20:08 ` Christian Neukirchen
2013-03-10 3:29 ` Rich Felker
2013-03-10 3:39 ` Rich Felker
2013-03-08 1:03 ` Isaac Dunham
2013-03-08 1:10 ` Rich Felker
2013-03-08 4:03 ` Isaac Dunham
2013-03-09 1:23 ` Rich Felker
2013-03-07 18:56 ` Justin Cormack
2013-03-08 0:04 ` Isaac Dunham [this message]
2013-03-07 22:30 ` Rob Landley
2013-03-08 0:22 ` Isaac Dunham
2013-03-08 1:09 ` Kurt H Maier
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