[Adding Cathy who is the open-vm-tools maintainer in RHEL and Ravindra who is the maintainer in Fedora]
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 01:36:05PM +0100, Oliver Falk wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 12:49 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Hi Oliver and others, > > I'm trying to fix a few things in Fedora's libdnet and have some > questions. > > (1) I'm unclear what the canonical upstream of libdnet should be. > There seem to be a couple of candidates: > > https://github.com/boundary/libdnet - not updated since 2016 > https://github.com/ofalk/libdnet - recently updated > > The current spec file points to the "boundary" repo, but I think we > should move to Oliver Falk's apparently more active fork. > > (2) If we move to the ofalk repo, then there is a new version (1.14). > > (3) I received a bug report about multilib conflicts with this > package. I previously fixed this > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/342001), but my fix was reverted, > apparently by a bad revert commit: > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libdnet/c/ > 224a9645782f69ae05b0e7caeb2e52e12b5655cb?branch=master > > I would therefore like to include the multilib fix again. > > Please let me know your thoughts on all this. > > Hey Richard! > > Due to the inactivity of the previous maintainer, yes, I took over libdnet and > tried to fix a few long standing issues. Given this also incorporated some ABI > incompatibilities, the version (and soname) were raised. API compatibility, > however, should be OK and if there is any issue, I'm sure we can sort that out > as well. > If there is anything that needs to be fixed, please open an issue on GitHub > and > /or provide a PR and I'll be happy to review and merge! Thanks for confirmation. I will do the update shortly, but only in Rawhide, and we'll see what the fall-out is. Ravindra: I'll also rebuild open-vm-tools against the new package (again, only in Rawhide). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
