[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#421946: Bug#421946: Bug#421946: openldap2.3: build against newer Berkeley DB

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 05:14:10PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:08 PM -0700 Steve Langasek 
> <vorlon at debian.org> wrote:

> > Anyway, if there are problems, better that they be detected at the
> > beginning of the release cycle when it's easier to get any upstream bdb
> > problems fixed in time for lenny.

> My hope is 4.6 will be out long before lenny.  It is the first release 
> since BDB 4.2 that I've seen actually outperform 4.2 across the board.  4.4 
> & 4.5 were both noticeably slower in read & write tests.

Is performance the only problem with 4.4 and 4.5 for OpenLDAP?  If so, I
think the BDB maintainers would be well within their rights to ask for
removal of 4.2 from unstable anyway, even if 4.6 weren't on the horizon.

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