[arch-general] Handling python venv packages breaking on glibc update

[Damjan Georgievski]

> I use psycopg2 for postgres access in my pyramid web-app, and like most
> (all?) python developers all the dependencies are in a virtualenv,
> including psycopg2 itself.
>
> This means, of course, that the psycopg2 wheel is precompiled.
>
> With the recent glibc-2.26 update, I can no longer import psycopg2. This is
> the error message I get on the file libresolv-2-c4c53def.5.so:
>
> symbol __res_maybe_init, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file
> libc.so.6 with link time reference
>
> I'm not sure why the psycopg2 pip package bundles in libresolv (which is
> part of glibc in Arch, explaining why the Arch psycopg2 package works fine,
> even without a recompile). Where's the right place for me to fix this? With
> the psycopg2 pip maintainers or somewhere else?


why not just use the Arch package? I prefer that for pacakges that
link to system libraries.


-- 
damjan