[Fixing up my mailing list settings and re-sending] Hello,
Apologies for the delayed announcement but as of glibc-2.34.9000-13.fc35, the glibc package has been split to create a new package glibc-gconv-extra to hold most converter modules into a separate package. The common converters such as those for UTF-*, ISO8859-1, ISO8859-15 and CP1252 remain in the core package. This change allows users that do not have use for the extra modules to save space as well as harden their systems; many of the infrequently used modules have historically had bugs with security impact. glibc-gconv-extra is recommended by glibc, so a regular update or default installation should pull in glibc-gconv-extra and there should be no noticeable change unless a user explicitly removes glibc-gconv-extra at some point. One user visible problem we discovered[1][2] was that buildroots do not install weak dependencies because of which glibc-gconv-extra goes missing from them. This may result in testing failures when applications try to test uncommon character set conversions. The fix to get that working again is to add a build dependency on glibc-gconv-extra. Please file bugs against glibc for any other issues you come across in charset conversions due to this split. We'll be happy to help resolve them. Siddhesh [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1973663 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1974466 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
