reassign 165068 libpam-modules severity 165068 important retitle 165068 pam: should compile with libdb4.x severity 189763 important merge 189763 165068 severity 270431 important merge 189763 270431 severity 292837 important reassign 292837 libpam-modules merge 189763 292837 thanks
Sam, It seems that the use of db3 in pam_userdb has become substantially more important recently, because libnss-db is now linked against libdb4.2 as well, leaving pam_userdb as the only significant tool that depends on db3. I'm assured by one of the libdb maintainers that a rebuild against libdb4.3 won't require any additional work to maintain compatibility with db3 on-disk databases. Indeed, given that the create.pl included with Linux-PAM will now (as of sarge) create db4 databases (as reported in bug #270431), I think that wouldn't even be a very strong argument for delaying the change to db4. I propose to fix this in the upload of pam 0.79-1, with your approval. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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