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Hello,

On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:59:41 -0500, wdlkmpx wrote:

> I'm sure there was plenty of people willing to contribute  to uclibc,
> there is even an updated fork.
> 
> The project has been badly managed.. thats the only reason i can think
> of for this situation  to happen

uClibc-ng is alive at https://uclibc-ng.org/. Regular releases
(actually more regular than musl in recent months!), updated web site,
responsive maintainer, lots of cleanup in the code base, and QA effort.

So saying that uClibc is dead is completely incorrect.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
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