[Cupt-devel] Bug#845358: Bug#845358: cupt: please switch to libreadline7

Eugene V. Lyubimkin jackyf at debian.org
Wed Nov 23 16:45:42 UTC 2016


Hi Sven,

Thank you for the report and a patch, will be applied in the next upload.

On 23.11.2016 09:53, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> Would it not be better to just link against libreadline, rather than
>> playing dlopen tricks which need to be adjusted on every readline soname
>> bump?

IIRC I did it this way because it's an optional feature of a not-so-often used subcommand, so I didn't want to introduce
an absolute dependency just for that. Gains aren't big but neither are effors: the last time the SONAME was changed 6+
years ago.



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