Bug#754045: libedit2: Broken rl_callback_read_char() in libedit's readline emulation

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 07/07/2014 02:40, Federico G. Schwindt wrote:
> Package: libedit2
> Version: 3.1-20140213-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Since the libedit2 update to 3.1-xxxx rl_callback_read_char() is broken.
> I've raised a bug report with upstream (NetBSD) here:
> 
> 	http://gnats.netbsd.org/48957
> 
> This is now fixed. Diff available at:
> 
> 	http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libedit/readline.c.diff?r1=1.110&r2=1.111&sortby=date
OK. I updated the VCS and it will be fixed in the next upload.

> Also it'd be nice if you bump LIBEDIT_MAJOR, LIBEDIT_MINOR or both to
> match what the current versioning in the package, something that was
> apparently missed when the version was bumped from 2.11-xxxx to 3.1-xxxx.
> 
Please
1 issue = 1 bug

Especially when they are different like here.


On the issue here, I know this but there were no reason to update the
ABI number.
Transition from a package name to the other is a huge work on a library
like libedit. So, I won't rename libedit2 to libedit3.

Sylvestre