Woo... It seems the glibc guys finally decided that tarballs
were not deprecated, in fact.
The patchset was vampirised from Gentoo (kudos, guys!), and
applies to glibc+ports, so that's why it's been added as a
patchset against ports, not against glibc.
1 This is NOT the official version of dialog. This version has been
2 significantly modified from the original. It is for use by the Linux
3 kernel configuration script. Please do not bother Savio Lam with