Inclusion in a debian repository #42
Description
Currently Debian distributes what it seems to be a very old version in comparison (1.12), based solely in the version numbering and release date, I believe is one of the original sources that was merged, based in the readme description. Is there any particular reason why is that? Given that the required build files for such package are already part of this repo (and they do work, recently tested in debian bullseye), is it just a matter of coordination with a debian maintainer? Or is there something else?.
Personally I have a particular interest in this package because is a dependency of Nix and the packaging effort of nix in debian would benefit itself by having a recent editline in the official repos, currently they have opted for trying to implement readline support in nix PR1/merged PR2/pending instead of packaging this library. At this time, Nix doesn't have the autocomplete functionality for the readline build option and it seems that the the Nix maintainers are even reconsidering the idea of allowing the extra option to support readline and stick only to editline.
Not sure if this is the best place to get more context. But I suppose it would be better to have this discussion in some place that can be publicly found for any future reference.
Thanks.