Re: CVS commit: basesrc

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 10 Aug 2002, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> Gregory McGarry <g.mcgarry%ieee.org@localhost> writes:
> > > David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
> > > > Log Message:
> > > > Add humanize_number.3 from Tomas Svensson in PR lib/15508.
> > > >         Bump version of libutil
> > >
> > > libutil is really for things like getting ptys, not for general
> > > purpose routines like this. It is a mistake to put it there.
> >
> > I guess that fparseln doesn't either.
>
> No, it doesn't. And neither do the various bit bashing operations that
> got added. Those all belong in libc. Just because a couple of people
> did silly things doesn't mean more people should.

        I assume we can get away with moving it to libc in this case?
        The worst we should do is break systat for some people running
        current, and even then only if they update libutil and not libc?

        Would the libutil version need to be reverted and a note added
        to skip 6.1 next bump?

        Any objections to the move?

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