Re: Looking for help on transition workflow with package libevent
On 2022-11-07 20:57:44 +0100, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> 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.
Please ignore my mail.
Cheers
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Sebastian Ramacher
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