[arch-dev-public] bash 4.0 / readline 6.0 rebuilds

Andreas Radke a.radke at arcor.de
Mon Feb 23 16:37:54 EST 2009


Am Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:37:31 -0600
schrieb Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:

> So bash 4.0 is out, and there's lots of neat little changes, but this
> also requires readline 6.0, which is a big old nasty soname change.

So far I'm the maintainer. I guess more likely unwanted because it was
a long time orphan? If you think it should be in one hand along bash
feel free to take it from me. I'm busy with other stuff.

> Unless anyone has any objections, I'd like to do these upgrades
> tonight and put everything in testing if it all goes as plans.
> 
> Any problems with that?
> 
> Packages affected, according to the web interface:
>     * abook
>     * afterstep
>     * archboot
>     * bash
>     * bc
>     * cdcd
>     * clisp
>     * device-mapper
>     * freeciv
>     * fvwm
>     * fvwm-devel
>     * gftp
>     * gnuchess
>     * gnutls
>     * gphoto2
>     * gutenprint
>     * hugs98
>     * inetutils
>     * jack-audio-connection-kit
>     * lftp
>     * libxml2
>     * lua
>     * maxima
>     * mysql-clients
>     * ntp
>     * pal
>     * php
>     * pilot-link
>     * postgresql-libs
>     * python24
>     * r
>     * ratpoison
>     * rosegarden
>     * ruby
>     * socat
>     * sqlite3
>     * sqlite3 (testing)
>     * swi-prolog
>     * tunepimp
>     * uml_utilities
>     * unixodbc
>     * wvstreams
> 

sqlite3 should get some signoffs and could be moved to core first.

-Andy


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