Bug#923238: libmarc-charset-perl: needs a rebuild on 32bit architectures?

[Dmitry Bogatov]

[2019-02-27 21:20] Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org>
> > - update perl to build-depend on libgdbm-dev (>= 1.18-2) and Break
> >   older versions of libmarc-charset-perl (and any other perl packages
> >   bundling GDBM or NDBM databases)
> > 
> > - update libmarc-charset-perl (and any other perl packages bundling
> >   GDBM or NDBM databases) to build-depend and depend on the newer perl
> > 
> > I assume other language bindings like python-gdbm will need something
> > similar.
>
> But ideally gdbm would restore compatibility and libmarc-charset-perl would
> not need any changes.

I believe upstream release 1.8.1 introduced change, that
made it possible to read old /usr/lib/libmarc-charset-perl/Table. Am I
missing something in current situation?

By the way, I disagree about compability. If all we need to make
everything good is just a binNMU, I'd rather not introduce any
patches/hacks/compatibility layers/etc.

By the way, it is sad that libmarc-charset-perl uses gdbm, not cdb.

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