----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason L Tibbitts III" <ti...@math.uh.edu> > To: "Siteshwar Vashisht" <svashi...@redhat.com> > Cc: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 6:54:59 PM > Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Rebasing to Readline-8.0 in rawhide > > SV> Readline-8.0 was released earlier this month[1]. I am going to > SV> rebase it in rawhide in couple of weeks. > > Note that a couple of things break in weird ways every time readline gets a > new > major version. For me that's the command line editing functionality of > the kerberos tools like kadmin. The root cause of this is something > called "libss" which is part of e2fsprogs (!). It tries to abstract > readline functionality and has a hardcoded list of libraries that it > looks for: > > get_readline.c:#define DEFAULT_LIBPATH > "libreadline.so.7:libreadline.so.6:libreadline.so.5:libreadline.so.4:libreadline.so:libedit.so.2:libedit.so:libeditline.so.0:libeditline.so" > > Could you work with the e2fsprogs maintainer to make sure that libss > continues to work as expected?
I would do that. I will also provide a compatibility package for readline 7. > > Thanks, > > - J< > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- -- Siteshwar Vashisht _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
