Slackware-current ChangeLog (2021-11-20)

Sat Nov 20 20:23:50 UTC 2021

  • ap/mariadb-10.5.13-i586-2.txz
    Install /etc/security/user_map.conf as /etc/security/user_map.conf.new to
    protect it from being overwritten by future upgrades.
    Thanks to Markus Wiesner.
  • d/python3-3.9.9-i586-2.txz
    Do not patch posix_user platlib to use $HOME/.local/lib64 on 64-bit - use
    $HOME/.local/lib for all platforms. This avoids a warning from pip about the
    install location not matching between distutils and sysconfig. Note that this
    might require already installed modules to be moved from $HOME/.local/lib64
    to $HOME/.local/lib (or they could be removed and then reinstalled).
    At first this seemed to be a non-optimal solution for this issue, but other
    distributions are taking this same approach and it appears that the
    posix_user platlib setting has always been ignored until recently.
    If this causes any unexpected issues, let me know.
    Thanks to redneonglow and alijkl.

Sat Nov 20 07:12:58 UTC 2021

  • l/python-setuptools_scm-6.3.2-i586-1.txz
    This is needed when building some Python modules to correctly parse their
    metadata, as recently discovered with importlib_metadata and zipp. While
    we'll stick to the version of Markdown that we've got, it seems like a good
    idea to get this in before the release to help prevent people from running
    into similar “version 0.0.0” issues with other Python modules.
    Thanks to USUARIONUEVO.
  • l/python-tomli-1.2.2-i586-1.txz
    This is needed by setuptools_scm. Also, the SlackBuild contains a nice
    example of using a setup.py shim to setuptools for a Python module that
    only contains pyproject.toml and not setup.py.
    Thanks to Heinz Wiesinger.
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