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

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:

> 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.

It's not that bad.  db4.3 is badly broken and nothing should use it, and I
don't know of any advantages of db4.4 over db4.5.  It's really only two
versions.

I certainly do understand why they don't want to maintain even two
versions, though.

> 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?

Well, I think it's the wrong technical choice for the openldap packages,
and it will reduce my ability to test and increase the amount of
divergence that I have to deal with, but none of those are particularly
strong objections.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>