Bug#923609: Binary incompatibility in libgdbm6

2019-03-10 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Hi Dmitry, > Thank you, Sergey. Does incompatibility goes other way too, that version > without LFS support is incapable of reading file, created with LFS > version? Yes, as the accompanying NOTE-WARNING file says: Gdbm files have never been `portable' between different operating systems,

Bug#923609: Binary incompatibility in libgdbm6

2019-03-07 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
[2019-03-05 17:44] Sergey Poznyakoff > Hello, > > Investigation of the attached file has shown that it has been created > by gdbm 1.8.3 compiled without large file support (sizeof(off_t) == 4). > In contrast, gdbm 1.18.1 was compiled with large file support enabled, > which naturally lead to

Bug#923609: Binary incompatibility in libgdbm6

2019-03-05 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Hello, Investigation of the attached file has shown that it has been created by gdbm 1.8.3 compiled without large file support (sizeof(off_t) == 4). In contrast, gdbm 1.18.1 was compiled with large file support enabled, which naturally lead to the observed behavior. Recompile it with the

Bug#923609: Binary incompatibility in libgdbm6

2019-03-05 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
control: tags -1 +upstream +forwarded Hello! Can you please take a look at this Debian bug report [1]. It seems that compatibility issues we discussed before and which were believed to resolved in release 1.18.1 actually still present. Reporter kindly provided receipe to reproduce issue and