Re: libdnet in Fedora

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[Adding Cathy who is the open-vm-tools maintainer in RHEL
 and Ravindra who is the maintainer in Fedora]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 01:36:05PM +0100, Oliver Falk wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 12:49 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Oliver and others,
> 
>     I'm trying to fix a few things in Fedora's libdnet and have some
>     questions.
> 
>     (1) I'm unclear what the canonical upstream of libdnet should be.
>     There seem to be a couple of candidates:
> 
>     https://github.com/boundary/libdnet ; - not updated since 2016
>     https://github.com/ofalk/libdnet - recently updated
> 
>     The current spec file points to the "boundary" repo, but I think we
>     should move to Oliver Falk's apparently more active fork.
> 
>     (2) If we move to the ofalk repo, then there is a new version (1.14).
> 
>     (3) I received a bug report about multilib conflicts with this
>     package.  I previously fixed this
>     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/342001), but my fix was reverted,
>     apparently by a bad revert commit:
> 
>     https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libdnet/c/
>     224a9645782f69ae05b0e7caeb2e52e12b5655cb?branch=master
> 
>     I would therefore like to include the multilib fix again.
> 
>     Please let me know your thoughts on all this.
>
> Hey Richard!
> 
> Due to the inactivity of the previous maintainer, yes, I took over libdnet and
> tried to fix a few long standing issues. Given this also incorporated some ABI
> incompatibilities, the version (and soname) were raised. API compatibility,
> however, should be OK and if there is any issue, I'm sure we can sort that out
> as well.
> If there is anything that needs to be fixed, please open an issue on GitHub and
> /or provide a PR and I'll be happy to review and merge!

Thanks for confirmation.  I will do the update shortly, but only in
Rawhide, and we'll see what the fall-out is.

Ravindra: I'll also rebuild open-vm-tools against the new package
(again, only in Rawhide).

Rich.

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