Re: [HEADS UP] Rebasing to Readline-8.0 in rawhide

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> From: "Jason L Tibbitts III" <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Siteshwar Vashisht" <svashisht@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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<
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