Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Per:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607109
>
> It seems we may have a problem to consider. As far as I know, we are the
> only major platform that supports libedit but our default is readline.
> Unfortunately readline is not compatible with OpenSSL (apparently?)
> licensing.
>
> This seems that it may be a problem for us considering the pre-package
> builds we do.
>
> What does everyone think? Should we work on getting libedit up to snuff?

I have to admit, this change in debian packaging -- which I have
noticed, and not a little -- makes my hands angry. I considered
looking into the problem, but were I doing it, I would have considered
teaching psql to support NSS or GnuTLS as totally viable alternatives
to this problem, as to keep readline.

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fdr