Bug#651700: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#651700: Bug#651700: slapd: BDB library version mismatch

2012-01-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: Under the circumstances that seems a perfectly reasonable behavior for upstream to implement, but in Debian we hold libraries to a higher standard. If the library *does* change its ABI, the package name in Debian will change even if upstream fails to

Bug#651700: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#651700: Bug#651700: slapd: BDB library version mismatch

2012-01-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 05:46:14PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: Under the circumstances that seems a perfectly reasonable behavior for upstream to implement, but in Debian we hold libraries to a higher standard. If the library *does* change its ABI,

Bug#651700: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#651700: Bug#651700: slapd: BDB library version mismatch

2012-01-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 05:46:14PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Note that ABI in this context has to encompass the on-disk format as well, which I suspect Steve meant but which is worth saying explicitly, since my guess would be that's where OpenLDAP ran

Bug#651700: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#651700: Bug#651700: slapd: BDB library version mismatch

2012-01-04 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 6:01 PM -0800 Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Do you think that's sufficient, or should I clarify this further? No, I think that's fine. I'm just a little worried that we'll get bitten by some future libdb change, but actually OpenLDAP may serve as an

Bug#651700: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#651700: Bug#651700: slapd: BDB library version mismatch

2012-01-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Quanah Gibson-Mount qua...@zimbra.com writes: Personally, I'm hoping Debian will dump back-bdb/back-hdb entirely once back-mdb is stable. ;) Yeah, mdb is looking really nice, and it would be lovely to stop having to worry about BerkeleyDB weirdness. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)