readline update?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Jul 3 20:35:51 UTC 2009


drago01 wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Ralf Corsepius<rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
>> Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
>>> I'd like to update readline to the latest version 6.0. The problem is
>>> that the license was changed to GPLv3+ and we have some GPLv2 packages
>>> using readline.
>>>
>>> A possible replacement is the editline library which provides a
>>> compatible interface and is licensed under BSD, unfortunately it
>>> doesn't handle UTF-8.
>> I thought, we banned all non-utf-8 aware packages?
> 
> err .. what?
Yes, utf-8 awareness had been a review criterion since the earliest 
Fedora days.

> no we still have a lot of them...
Packages to get rid off ... did somebody say Fedora is "leading edge"?

Ralf





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