On 2022-11-07 11:44:31 +0100, Graham Inggs wrote: > Hi Sebastian > > On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 at 08:58, Sebastian Ramacher <[email protected]> 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 > -- Sebastian Ramacher
