Bug#35049: More information

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

Guy Maor wrote:
> Yes, you've identified the problem.  A version of bash was
> accidentally released nonoptimized - I was trying to trace down a bug
> and left out the -O symbols.  I've since had to maintain readline's
> unoptimized state for binary compatibility.

(And this broke with glibc2.1, which introduced stat64)

> Luckily, a new major version of readline was recently released, which
> demands an soname change anyway.  So I can now solve this problem.

Great!  I expect this will fix the biggest slink -> potato upgrade problem.

I'll leave the bug open; I still think glibc is wrong for introducing
symbols in shared libraries this way.  But it's no longer release-critical.

Richard Braakman