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

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 05:26:52PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > 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.

> Well, if high performance is a critical factor to an LDAP service, this is 
> a severe issue.  Yes, that is the only problem I've encountered with 4.4 
> and 4.5.  Is it enough of an issue I would avoid it? Yes, it is.  What 
> Debian and its BDB maintainers choose to do about it depends, I guess, on 
> whether or not they understand why that would be an issue for users or if 
> it matters so much to them.

I don't doubt that not getting stuck maintaining 5 versions of libdb4 in
lenny (db4.2, db4.3, db4.4, db4.5, and the not-yet-released db4.6) is more
important to them than an application-specific performance issue with db4.5.

I'm also confident that they would entertain other reasonable solutions for
the performance issue that don't involve shipping a separate copy of libdb
in lenny for the benefit of a single reverse-dependency.

Anyway, even though we don't want to ship it in that state for lenny (and
db4.6 seems sure to solve that), is there any reason not to build openldap
against db4.5 right now for unstable, to get feedback in parallel about any
other issues there might be?

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