Changes/libmemcached-awesome

libmemcached-awesome

Summary

Switch from libmemcached to libmemcached-awesome

Owner

• Name: Remi Collet
• Email: remi at fedoraproject dot org

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 35
• Last updated: 2021-07-02
• FESCo issue: #2630
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by Wrangler>
• Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by Wrangler>

• Jun 24th 2021 version 1.1.0 was released

• Package reviewed as #1975704 (approved)

Detailed Description

libmemcache 1.0.18 was released in February 2014, so hasn't received an update for 7 years.

libmemcache-awesome is a fork providing same libraries, tools with API/ABI compatibility.

Benefit to Fedora

Rely on a maintained project.

Scope

• Proposal owners: Check Koschei status. Test with latest version to ensure compatibility. Work with upstream on bug fixing. Needed mass rebuild (C extensions) done by change owner.

• Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Release engineering:

• List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

• install and play with your application

User Experience

Developers and system administrators will have the great benefit or running a maintained library.

Dependencies

• Io-language
• dynafed
• ganglia-gmetad
• gearmand
• hydra
• libyaz
• opendkim
• opensips-cachedb_memcached
• opensips-lua
• php-pecl-memcached
• postgresql-pgpool
• proftpd
• python3-pylibmc

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: API is the same, so there should not have any issue, else fix not compatible packages.

• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
• Blocks product? product

Documentation

• Upstream documentation