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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