What is the Diet Libc library?

The diet libc is a C library that is optimized for small size. It can be used to create small statically linked binaries for Linux on Intel x86/IA-32 ("i386"), Alpha ("alpha"), ARM ("arm"), Motorola/IBM PowerPC ("powerpc"), Sun SPARC ("sparc"), MIPS CPUs ("mips" and "mipsel"), and S/390 ("s390").

Package history

Release date Version Comments
2002-03-22 0.16-1 New upstream, Fixed #132315, #138338, #139223, dynamic linking support (added dietlibc), replaced shell script with slightly modified Felix diet binaries
2001-12-19 0.12-2 Fixed #125781, #124152
2001-12-04 0.12-1 New upstream version, Fixed #120297, #120396, #122164, added the new documents to debian/docs and split the package into two (dietlibc-dev and dietlibc-doc)
2001-11-15 0.11-4 Fixed #119715
2001-11-10 0.11-3 Fixed #109209 again :P
2001-10-29 0.11-2 Fixed #109209, #117273
2001-08-06 0.11-1 New release, Fixed #104688, removed kernel compatibility checks, etc
2001-06-16 0.10-1 Initial release

Who maintains this software now?

I handed over the maintainership to Gerrit Pape who seems to do a wonderful job maintaining it.