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

[Federico Schwindt]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org>
wrote:

> On 07/07/2014 11:29, Federico Schwindt wrote:
> >
> >     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.
> >
> >
> > I'm not suggesting that but bumping the major or at least the minor.
> > Before libedit2 was updated the code was from 2008, now it's from 2014;
> > I think 6 years worth of changes justify this but I will open a new
> report.
> Why not reporting this bug upstream?
>

I could but it doesn't really matter in their case since libedit is part of
the NetBSD release cycle.

In the Debian case the package is independent and can be updated at any
point.
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