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

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 6:01 PM -0800 Russ Allbery 
<rra at debian.org> wrote:

>> Do you think that's sufficient, or should I clarify this further?
>
> No, I think that's fine.  I'm just a little worried that we'll get bitten
> by some future libdb change, but actually OpenLDAP may serve as an
> excellent canary there.  If libdb changes either the file format or the
> ABI in a way that isn't compatible without changing the SONAME, that's an
> RC bug in libdb from Debian's perspective and it's something we'd rather
> know about than not, since we need to fix it regardless of OpenLDAP's use
> of the package.

Personally, I'm hoping Debian will dump back-bdb/back-hdb entirely once 
back-mdb is stable. ;)

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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