[Bug 1938591] Re: update 18.04 to readline8

[Neil Horman]

Sure, updating the 7.0 version to include the .pc file for readline is a
fine approach to fixing this problem, but I dont think I would consider
this a low priority issue.  There are 37 non-ubuntu service accounts
watching this bug, so it seems to have significant impact.  Add to that
the fact that, without this update, any package being developed that use
readline won't be able to compile with automake on the 18.04 ubuntu
release.  It should be an easy and very safe (to use the SRU term) to
fix this.

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Title:
  update 18.04 to readline8

Status in readline package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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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