Quoting Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hello,
>
> Bellow is the mail I received from the upstream of libdbi. The current
> maintainer, David Parker, is Cc: to this message, so he can reply if he
> is still interested in doing the maintenance.
>
> If David is not willing to continue maintaining it, I can try to take
> over the package.
>

Did you Thomas, or David, get any feedback from Jeremy Malcolm? I know  
Jeremy from the RefDB mailing list, and I recall that he intended to  
package RefDB and maybe libdbi too.

> The last entry in the Debian changelog is "Tue, 20 Jan 2004", which is
> quite old. And there's this "quite annoying" bug with no reply from the
> current maintainer:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=312115
>
> which made the lib removed from Etch.
>

I have never seen a crash like this on any recent version of libdbi.  
However, I'm testing libdbi on FreeBSD and on Windows/Cygwin, and  
there is always a chance that Debian is a little less forgiving in  
terms of memory allocation errors. But then, I use valgrind to check  
alloc problems quite frequently, and I didn't see any errors in libdbi  
except that it may lose some memory. In any case you should keep in  
mind that libdbi-drivers (not libdbi itself) contains a test program  
(try "make check") that you can use to test all available drivers on  
your particular platform. If that works ok, there are good chances  
that the application using libdbi screwed up things and caused the  
reported bug.

regards,
Markus


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