Bug 1035303

Summary:	please update mdbtools to a more recent version
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jos de Kloe <josdekloe>
Component:	mdbtools	Assignee:	Hans de Goede <hdegoede>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	20	CC:	hdegoede, pbrobinson
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Description Jos de Kloe 2013-11-27 13:59:42 UTC

Description of problem:

judging on the name the current mdbtools in fedora (checked f18,f19,f20) seems based on a very outdated 2005 cvs version. The last few fedora releases only had minor changes in the specfile and did not follow upstream development.

This old version has some known problems, and several patches are applied to fix some of them. However, for my own use case this does not solve all problems. Downloading the latest version from github and recompiling myself does solve them.

Therefore could you please consider to upgrade to the latest version in the current git repository (marked as version 0.7.1).
The current repository is here:

https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools/

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Comment 2 Jos de Kloe 2013-12-21 22:13:46 UTC

In Fedora 20 the old version is still in use, so I updated version number to 20.