On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 11:39:12AM +0200, Sean McAvoy wrote:
> Hello Richard,
> I have updated the version to 1.16.0 and integrated your suggestions in Merge
> Request [1].
> I have stared the project and will get updates when new releases are made and
> will update the Alpine package soon after.

Great thanks.  Just a note that the stable branch (1.16.4)
has a few fixes:

https://download.libguestfs.org/libnbd/1.16-stable/

Rich.

> Thanks for making great software.
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> [1] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/52132
> 
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 6:02 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Sean, the maintainers of libnbd here.  Thanks for packaging libnbd
>     in Alpine:
> 
>     https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/testing/libnbd/APKBUILD
> 
>     I have a few comments:
> 
>     (1) The url field should be "https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd";
>     (The one you are using is an old, stale mirror)
> 
>     (2) libxml2-dev is not listed as a dependency.
> 
>     We had a request from an Alpine user to add this dependency because it
>     enables several important features in libnbd, namely NBD URI support
>     and some utilities which require URI support.
> 
>     It shouldn't be too much trouble to add since it appears that libxml2
>     is already built in Alpine.
> 
>     (3) libnbd 1.18 (next stable) will be released in a week or two:
>     https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2023-September/032590.html
> 
>     If you have any questions or comments about the package you can send
>     them to me and/or the mailing list (without subscribing if you don't
>     want to).
> 
>     Rich.
> 
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