Upcoming changes with glibc and db2
Well, with glibc 2.1.93 on the way into woody, you will all need to note
that db/db2 are not in glibc anymore. For now, libdb2 will be supplying
the symlinks required to keep packages compiled against glibc's db/db2
from breaking, and libc6 will depend on this new libdb2 package (same as
before, but with symlinks).
Now, some applications will report:
foo: /usr/lib/libdb.so.[23]: no version information available (required by foo)
This is mostly harmless, but means the program needs to be recompiled
agains the new libdb2-dev. Yes, you will have to start adding
Build-Depends for libdb2-dev for applications that need it. I don't like
adding extra deps to glibc, so you all will have to fix this yourselves.
Be fore-warned, I will periodically check packages that have library links
to libdb.so.[23] (the old glibc db libraries) and report bugs on them for
recompilation. By the time woody releases, I want to remove the libdb2
dependency from libc6. It's only there for now to keep things from
breaking on running systems.
Ben
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