asterisk into unstable

[Faidon Liambotis]

Julien BLACHE wrote:
> Faidon Liambotis <paravoid at debian.org> wrote:
> 
>> I did a second check and realized that it's probably not going to work
>> on lenny due to an older glibc.
> 
> You don't need glibc support for timerfd; there are only 3 system
> calls needed, and they're trivial (ie glibc doesn't need to add
> anything around the syscall).
> 
> A 2.6.25 kernel is all you need, and if your glibc doesn't have the
> syscalls needed, a local definition will do.
Thought about it (hence the "probably").

I'm not very fond on doing that, esp. on non-x86 architectures.
It's still an option, if it comes to that.

Thanks,
Faidon