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

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Tuesday, March 06, 2007 11:48 AM -0800 Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> 
wrote:

> 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).

Yeah, that'd cover it.  Definately the wrong priority, since it was a 
requirement for OpenLDAP 2.3.  Looking at the actual patch, I see it has 
been out since March of 2005.  Ouch.

--Quanah

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