Re: Looking for help on transition workflow with package libevent
On 2022-11-07 11:44:31 +0100, Graham Inggs wrote:
> Hi Sebastian
>
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 at 08:58, Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> wrote:
> > Is that really worth the effort for this one missing symbol? I'd just
> > make sure that is stays around regardless of glibc version.
>
> There was a patch proposed in the corresponding Ubuntu bug [1],
> re-introducing the symbol, however there was a concern from schopin
> (see comment #4):
>
> > This patch wouldn't work as intended, as we'd mix arc4random functions
> > from the vendored sources and from glibc,
> > each set having their own internal static data.
So let's use the glibc provided one over the internal copy. I don't see
the issue. With the rather non-trivial set of libevent reverse
dependencies, I'd like to avoid a lock step transition.
Cheers
>
> A test rebuild of reverse-dependencies was done in Ubuntu, and the
> transition went ahead.
>
> Regards
> Graham
>
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/libevent/+bug/1990941
>
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Sebastian Ramacher
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