#378809 please consider building a sfio package

Package:
ksh
Source:
ksh93u+m
Submitter:
Martin Michlmayr
Date:
2026-06-07 14:33:02 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#378809#5
Date:
2006-07-18 23:12:34 UTC
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sfio is currently in the process of being removed from the archive,
see http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2006/07/msg00052.html  As
suggested by yourself in #279812, it might make sense for ksh to ship
a binary package of sfio.  Obviously, I don't know if there's any real
interest given that nobody bothered to adopt sfio, but I'm sure you'll
know whether it is useful.


Quote:

  Subject: O: sfio -- Enhanced library for managing I/O streams.
  Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:55:20 +0100

  If there is any interest in sfio, let me know. It would be best
  handled as part of the same package as ksh. Ksh (also from AT&T) uses
  sfio and the source is largely distributed as a single tarball. Being
  a new maintainer, I wanted to keep things simple by just packaging ksh
  but all the AT&T utilities (such as nmake etc) could be built from one
  source package.

  Oliver Kiddle
#378809#12
Date:
2015-10-27 07:34:23 UTC
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tag 378809 +wontfix
thanks

Until there is a move to package those other packages, there is no merit
in this. So tagging wontfix.
#378809#17
Date:
2026-06-07 14:31:47 UTC
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Closing this old item as there are no plans for the suggestion.

Anuradha