Bug#348854: /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.15: no version information available

[Andreas Metzler]

reassign 348854 libmysqlclient15 5.0.18-6
thanks
On 2006-01-19 Laurent Fousse <laurent at cabal.lateralis.org> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.60-3
> Severity: normal

> Hello,

> I get the message in $SUBJECT everytime I run sendmail or mailq, since
> last upgrade.

Looks like libmysqlclient15 lost its versioned symbols when going from
-4 to -6. Downgrading to libmysqlclient15 to 5.0.18-4 makes the error
message go away. Running objdump -p on  /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.15
shows this difference:

--- /tmp/objdump-5.0.18-4       2006-01-19 19:32:47.555957880 +0100
+++ /tmp/objdump-5.0.18-6       2006-01-19 19:33:16.086620560 +0100
[...]
-  VERSYM      0x7e7a
+  VERSYM      0x7e60
   RELCOUNT    0x31f

-Version definitions:
-1 0x01 0x0c4ff675 libmysqlclient.so.15
-2 0x00 0x04cd889e HIDDEN
-3 0x00 0x086276f0 MYSQL_5.0
-
 Version References:
   required from libc.so.6:
[...]

cu andreas

PS: In case there is dificulty in reproducing; this does the trick:
apt-get install exim4-daemon-heavy
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bV
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