Re: libdb transition policy?

2006-05-30 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! Sorry for late response. * Nikita V. Youshchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-24 12:10]: However, contrary to what the NM templates suggest, symbol versioning is not a cure-all for all ABI incompatibilities. If libetpan returns a DB_ENV * in its API, you need to port[1] all its

Re: Bug#367853: libdb transition policy?

2006-05-30 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Have fun with updating the library, it won't affect depending packages. :) Some times are that easy to solve, you know? Ok, will upload today :) pgpHAIvddyz9K.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#367853: libdb transition policy?

2006-05-30 Thread DINH Viêt Hoà
On 30 May 2006, at 12:50, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Hi! Sorry for late response. * Nikita V. Youshchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-24 12:10]: However, contrary to what the NM templates suggest, symbol versioning is not a cure-all for all ABI incompatibilities. If libetpan returns a

Re: libdb transition policy?

2006-05-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 07:59:48AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Why that? It would only affect packages that (correctly or wrongly) also depend on libdb4.2. (And libdb4.2 unfortunatly doesn't have versioning, otherwise, it wouldn't be any issue; lidb4.3 and libdb4.4 are better in that

Re: libdb transition policy?

2006-05-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Andreas Barth: Why that? It would only affect packages that (correctly or wrongly) also depend on libdb4.2. (And libdb4.2 unfortunatly doesn't have versioning, otherwise, it wouldn't be any issue; lidb4.3 and libdb4.4 are better in that regard.) Berkeley DB 4.2 was compiled such that every

Re: libdb transition policy?

2006-05-24 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
* Andreas Barth: Why that? It would only affect packages that (correctly or wrongly) also depend on libdb4.2. (And libdb4.2 unfortunatly doesn't have versioning, otherwise, it wouldn't be any issue; lidb4.3 and libdb4.4 are better in that regard.) Berkeley DB 4.2 was compiled such that

Re: libdb transition policy?

2006-05-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Nikita V. Youshchenko: * Nikita V. Youshchenko: However, if I will build library against libdb4.4 instead of libdb4.2, this will probably break any binaries built against the library - both packaged and local. What kind of interface does libetpan expose? Based on the package

Re: libdb transition policy?

2006-05-23 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
* Nikita V. Youshchenko: However, if I will build library against libdb4.4 instead of libdb4.2, this will probably break any binaries built against the library - both packaged and local. What kind of interface does libetpan expose? Based on the package description, I wouldn't expect

libdb transition policy? (Was: Re: Bug#367853: libetpan: Please consider transitioning to libdb4.4)

2006-05-23 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
[CCing to -devel and to people who maintain packages that depend on libetpan] Package: libetpan Severity: wishlist Hi, currently several versions of the berkeley db libraries are used in the archive: libdb[4.2,4.3,4.4]. Please consider upgrading to libdb4.4 in order to ship etch with

Re: libdb transition policy?

2006-05-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Nikita V. Youshchenko: However, if I will build library against libdb4.4 instead of libdb4.2, this will probably break any binaries built against the library - both packaged and local. What kind of interface does libetpan expose? Based on the package description, I wouldn't expect the

Re: libdb transition policy? (Was: Re: Bug#367853: libetpan: Please consider transitioning to libdb4.4)

2006-05-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Nikita V. Youshchenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060523 17:22]: However, if I will build library against libdb4.4 instead of libdb4.2, this will probably break any binaries built against the library - both packaged and local. Why that? It would only affect packages that (correctly or wrongly)