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regarding libedit: Add a shim readline development library
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: libedit
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
This is a proposal to introduce one additional development library to
libedit. It is the go-to package to compile readline-enabled software
that cannot use readline since its license change to GPL-3. With
#737301, the last GPL-2 readline version was orphaned and is not
maintained for 4.5 years. Only two packages still depend on it: lvm2 and
xfsprogs.
However, there are a lot of packages which have patches on them to link
with libedit instead of readline. Also, there is software in the archive
that depends on libreadline8 even though their licenses are
incompatible, e.g., see bible-kjv issue #977639.
For both the existing patched software and the license incompatible
software, a development library that provides the libreadline-dev file
names but resolves them to libedit-dev files would reduce (for some
packages even eliminate) the effort that is involved in porting a
package to use libedit over readline.
A patch with such a shim package called libeditreadline-dev is included.
It only contains symbolic links. I tested it with bible-kjv, lvm2, and
xfsprogs. The only change that was needed to build them with libedit
instead of readline was replacing libreadline-dev with
libeditreadline-dev in their Build-Dependencies.
Regards,
Bastian
From: Bastian Germann <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 13:15:25 +0100
Subject: Add a shim readline development library
With DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH in the .links file, debhelper-compat 13 is needed.
This implies ignoring the libedit.la file.
---
debian/compat | 1 -
debian/control | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
debian/libeditreadline-dev.links | 5 +++++
debian/not-installed | 1 +
4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 debian/compat
create mode 100644 debian/libeditreadline-dev.links
create mode 100644 debian/not-installed
diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
deleted file mode 100644
index b4de394..0000000
--- a/debian/compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-11
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index cdce9cc..ca8232c 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Uploaders:
Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]>,
Rules-Requires-Root: no
Build-Depends:
- debhelper (>= 11),
+ debhelper-compat (= 13),
pkg-config,
groff-base,
libbsd-dev (>= 0.1.3),
@@ -50,3 +50,19 @@ Description: BSD editline and history libraries (development files)
history, and tokenization functions.
.
It slightly resembles GNU readline.
+
+Package: libeditreadline-dev
+Section: libdevel
+Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: same
+Depends:
+ ${misc:Depends},
+ libedit-dev
+Conflicts: libreadline-dev, libreadline5-dev, libreadline-gplv2-dev
+Description: BSD editline and history libraries (shim development files)
+ GNU readline changed its license from GPL-2 to GPL-3 with version 6,
+ which excludes GPL-2-only programs from using current readline versions.
+ editline resembles readline functionally and with regards to its API.
+ .
+ This is a development shim library that can be used to link a GPL-2-only
+ program that depends on readline with editline.
diff --git a/debian/libeditreadline-dev.links b/debian/libeditreadline-dev.links
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ebb9fb7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/libeditreadline-dev.links
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+usr/include/editline usr/include/readline
+usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/libedit.a usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/libhistory.a
+usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/libedit.so usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/libhistory.so
+usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/libedit.a usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/libreadline.a
+usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/libedit.so usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/libreadline.so
diff --git a/debian/not-installed b/debian/not-installed
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1737e93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/not-installed
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+usr/lib/*/libedit.la
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: libedit
Source-Version: 3.1-20191231-2
Done: Bastian Germann <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libedit, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bastian Germann <[email protected]> (supplier of updated libedit
package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing [email protected])
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Hash: SHA256
Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:52:09 +0100
Source: libedit
Binary: libedit-dev libedit2 libedit2-dbgsym libeditreadline-dev
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 3.1-20191231-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: LLVM Packaging Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Bastian Germann <[email protected]>
Description:
libedit-dev - BSD editline and history libraries (development files)
libedit2 - BSD editline and history libraries
libeditreadline-dev - BSD editline and history libraries (shim development
files)
Closes: 977664
Changes:
libedit (3.1-20191231-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Update debhelper compat to v13
* Add a shim readline development library (Closes: #977664)
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