[arch-general] Please fastly update packages not using the generic readline *.so

Sebastian Lau lauseb644 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 14 19:44:15 UTC 2016


Hi,

cinnamon (and maybe other desktops/packages) seem to use 
libreadline.so.6 which was updated today to a new SONAME. There should 
be a fast update to load the SONAME=7 or the generic shared object with 
the next release to prevent failures like this:

nullptr ~ % cinnamon &
[1] 1111
cinnamon: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.6: cannot 
open shared object file: No such file or directory
[1]  + 1111 exit 127   cinnamon
nullptr ~ % ls /usr/lib/libreadline.so
completing files
libreadline.so@      libreadline.so.7@    libreadline.so.7.0*
nullptr ~ % LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libreadline.so cinnamon &

The last command works. It would be nice to have a fast update for 
cinnamon and all other packages that don't use the generic libreadline.so

Thank you!
Sebastian


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