Hi,
* Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> [2009-01-22 09:40]:
> Netatalk store metadata in BerkeleyDB databases per fileshare. These
> databases are specific to the version of BerkeleyDB used and netatalk
> does not automatically upgrade databases when newer version of the
> BerkeleyDB library is used.
> 
> Netatalk build-depend on libdb-dev, which on Etch pulls in libdb4.2-dev
> but on recent Lenny instead pulls in libdb4.6-dev.
> 
> When users update to the recently released security update, all file
> shares will appear empty  until the metadata databases are either
> manually updated or the databases removed to have new metadata be
> recreated from scratch.
> 
> Build-depending on libdb4.2-dev instead of libdb-dev fixes this issue.
> 
> Will it be ok for the Security team that I prepare a security update
> 2.0.3-11+lenny2 with above one-line fix?

As I didn't touch the build-dependencies in the security 
update and didn't really caused the breakage by myself I 
would be more happy if you could fix this via t-p-u.

Cheers
Nico
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