rlwrap 0.44 needed for bugfix w/ readline 8.1

[Thomas Ward]

The package in Ubuntu for rlwrap is fed from Debian with no change 
rebuilds as needed it seems, and in Debian there is not a newer version 
packaged.  While it would be nice to get newest software, it looks like 
the package might not be maintained since 2018 in Debian.  And there's a 
bug in Debian requesting an updated version - 0.45.2. [1]

I don't know if the package is unmaintained, but it's probably something 
that someone who cares to could try and go salvage in Debian, otherwise 
we'd have to rely on Debian for the version, or do some kind of delta 
which is generally something that is avoided where possible unless it's 
needed.

Should the package be updated?  Probably, but it should be updated in 
Debian first, and then only in Kinetic Kudu first if that doesn't happen.

I'm not sure if this is SRUable, but that's only 'cause I haven't dug to 
see if a new version bump would be a suitable SRU.  And even then, 
again, the updated versions have to land in Kinetic first.


Thomas


[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=986294

On 4/28/22 10:51, Kaleb Barrett wrote:
> First time on the list so I'm not much aware of etiquette, please 
> excuse me.
>
> I noticed an issue using rlwrap on Ubuntu 22.04 (prompts are 
> overwritten with the input), however the problem has been fixed 
> upstream in version 0.44, which was released Jan 2021. Should this 
> package be updated? The currently available version 0.43 is 5 years old.
>
> Thanks,
> ktb
>