On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 08:18:09AM +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > [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. Thanks for doing this, more minimization is very welcome. > 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. To preserve compatibility on upgrades, you should have Obsoletes:glibc < $NEW_VERSION in both glibc and glibc-gconv-extra. This causes dnf to install both packages when updating. This should be present independently of the Recommends and conditional Requires, which are mostly for new systems. Zbyszek > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
