Hi Matt, On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 14:01 -0700, Matt Ingenthron wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm on a quest for someone who can explain the disappearance of GNU iconv in > build 111a. GNU iconv was in 2008.11, but the package is now empty in build > 111a. According to Sean Walker, who pointed to the closure of a bug by > Danek, this is expected. No reason seems to have been given on why it would > go away, and it broke some software I'd put together on 2008.11.
I don't think it was in 2008.11, I mean it was, but it was already empty. We did ship GNU iconv in 2008.05 because some bits in the Solaris i18n backend libraries were not redistributable and GNOME needed something to work. But that was only for a short while. Looking at your post here: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2009-May/015374.html It shows that your libiconv was from build 75 or 79 (or a mixture of both?!?) so you it may have been left there after image-updating from 2008.05 to 2008.11. Laca > I posted this to i18n discuss, with no reply: > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=101866&tstart=0 > > There is also the original thread (best summarized as yes it's gone, but we > don't know or care why) on indiana-discuss: > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2009-May/thread.html > > In the bug Sean pointed to, a number of the other packages were desktop > related. This makes me wonder (though I don't know how I'd know unless I > dig through the source) if this is related to desktop changes. > > Thanks in advance for any info. > > - Matt
