Hello Richard,
I have updated the version to 1.16.0 and integrated your suggestions in
Merge Request [1].
I have stared the project and will get updates when new releases are made
and will update the Alpine package soon after.

Thanks for making great software.

Sean


[1] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/52132

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 6:02 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com>
wrote:

> Hi Sean, the maintainers of libnbd here.  Thanks for packaging libnbd
> in Alpine:
>
> https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/testing/libnbd/APKBUILD
>
> I have a few comments:
>
> (1) The url field should be "https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd";
> (The one you are using is an old, stale mirror)
>
> (2) libxml2-dev is not listed as a dependency.
>
> We had a request from an Alpine user to add this dependency because it
> enables several important features in libnbd, namely NBD URI support
> and some utilities which require URI support.
>
> It shouldn't be too much trouble to add since it appears that libxml2
> is already built in Alpine.
>
> (3) libnbd 1.18 (next stable) will be released in a week or two:
> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2023-September/032590.html
>
> If you have any questions or comments about the package you can send
> them to me and/or the mailing list (without subscribing if you don't
> want to).
>
> Rich.
>
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