On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 03:19:42PM +0200, Jan Staněk wrote: > One of the planned parts of the F21 System Wide Change: BerkeleyDB 6 [1] > is the introduction of downstream symbol versioning of both versions of > the libraries (libdb with v6 and libdb5 with v5). This part is planned > in order to not introduce bugs similar to [2]. However, if we introduce > downstream versioning (as upstream is generally unresponsive), then we > face the problem similar to [3].
If we keep libdb5 (forever?) then the [3] problem is less of an issue, IMO. Given that portably linking against libdb has historically been a major headache I'd be surprised if there are any binary third-party apps which even try doing this, to be honest. I don't claim to understand the licensing matrix here, though, is there any background reading on that? Can we even switch *anything* which is potentially linked into httpd to using BDB 6? If not then basically nothing in $libdir can link against BDB 6. Regards, Joe -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
