[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: libmbfl

Wed Mar 28 17:46:19 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and David Walser at 28/03/12 16:31 did gyre and gimble:
+> Colin Guthrie <mageia at ...> writes:
+>>> Rebuilding PHP did not help.
+>>>
+>>> We need to revert this ASAP or find a way to fix PHP to be compatible
+>>> and find out which other packages may be broken as a result.
+> 
+> It's quite a mess upstream too.  Apparently there was a 1.0.1 version
+> (with a security bug), and then it was fixed in a 1.1.0 version, but the
+> tarball was still called 1.0.1, replacing the old copy upstream.  We can't
+> just revert this, because that's not right either, but what we can do is
+> sync it with the version from Mageia 1 updates.  This will require sysadmin
+> assistance because of downgrading the version.  I'll fix this in SVN when I
+> get back to my apartment, since mgarepo sync interactions with the binrepo
+> don't work through a proxy, so I can't quite do it from work.
+> 
+> Sorry for not noticing the breakage, I forgot to install php-mbstring when
+> testing this.  We'll get it fixed though :o)
+
+Don't worry, it's hard to notice everything :)
+
+I think the mga1 version is likely a good idea. Looks like upstream are
+in a bit of a borked state :s
+
+
+Col
+
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