[Pkg-openldap-devel] RE: LDAP/BDB log purging (fwd)

[Russ Allbery]

Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah at stanford.edu> writes:

> Not that I am aware of, but I've only been following this from the
> openldap-software side.

> I'm somewhat puzzled by why these patches aren't already in the debian
> BDB package.  I've had them in my build since at least January 2006.
> Sleepycat (now Oracle) identified these as things necessary to have
> their database software work right.  People tend to want their databases
> to work right. Anyhow ;)

Could be any number of different reasons including focusing on later
versions of Berkeley DB (if they don't use OpenLDAP or other really
intensive applications, they may be mostly using 4.4 themselves) or, for
that matter, just not being horribly active.  There haven't been many
db4.2 uploads in the last year.

Is this the same issue as:

    <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316389>

or is that something else?  If it is the same issue, one problem may be
that the bug has wholly the wrong severity (currently it's marked
wishlist).

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