A massive proportion of Linux devices are actually using Bionic or uClibc instead of the gnu libc.
While superficially the reasoning may seem to be purely technical, freedom from Drepper is not an unacknowledged feature of these alternatives.
While superficially the reasoning may seem to be purely technical, freedom from Drepper is not an unacknowledged feature of these alternatives.
For example he's "famous" for refusing to patch ldd to work with any posix shell instead of bash: https://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3266
It was recently fixed, but only after more considerate guys took over maintainership...