[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#651700: Bug#651700: Bug#651700: slapd: BDB library version mismatch

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:

> Under the circumstances that seems a perfectly reasonable behavior for
> upstream to implement, but in Debian we hold libraries to a higher
> standard.  If the library *does* change its ABI, the package name in
> Debian will change even if upstream fails to handle this, so the check
> within OpenLDAP is redundant; and in cases where Oracle releases a
> patchlevel release that doesn't change the ABI, this actively works
> against the packaging system.

Note that ABI in this context has to encompass the on-disk format as well,
which I suspect Steve meant but which is worth saying explicitly, since my
guess would be that's where OpenLDAP ran into problems in the past that
caused this check to be added.

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