liblockdev

[Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>]

liblockdev seems like a really good idea, which we're considering
adding to LSB (although the library function names may get changed
along the way so they all have the same prefix).

Is there a reason that no Debian packages are using it?

 Package: liblockdev0g
 Version: 0.11.1
 Architecture: i386
 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1)
 Conflicts: liblockdev0
 Replaces: liblockdev0
 Installed-Size: 24
 Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>
 Source: lockdev
 Description: Run-time shared library (libc6) for locking devices.
  It provides a reliable way to put an exclusive lock to
  devices using _both_ FSSTND and SVr4 methods.