[Bug 1938591] [NEW] update 18.04 to readline8

[Neil Horman]

Public bug reported:

libreadline up until version 8 didn't include a pkg-config file, and so
any other package that relied on being able to find the readline
libraries using the autoconf PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro failed in build.
This has since been corrected, but I've received several reports of
people trying to build dropwatch (https://github.com/nhorman/dropwatch)
on 18.04 LTS, which needs readline, and as such fails.  libreadline8 has
been available in 20.04 for some time, and it would be nice to have it
available in the older LTS releases

** Affects: readline (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  update 18.04 to readline8

Status in readline package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  libreadline up until version 8 didn't include a pkg-config file, and
  so any other package that relied on being able to find the readline
  libraries using the autoconf PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro failed in build.
  This has since been corrected, but I've received several reports of
  people trying to build dropwatch
  (https://github.com/nhorman/dropwatch) on 18.04 LTS, which needs
  readline, and as such fails.  libreadline8 has been available in 20.04
  for some time, and it would be nice to have it available in the older
  LTS releases

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