BerkeleyDB 6 symbol versioning and associated problems

Joe Orton jorton at redhat.com
Mon Jul 21 20:31:45 UTC 2014


On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 03:19:42PM +0200, Jan Staněk wrote:
> One of the planned parts of the F21 System Wide Change: BerkeleyDB 6 [1]
> is the introduction of downstream symbol versioning of both versions of
> the libraries (libdb with v6 and libdb5 with v5). This part is planned
> in order to not introduce bugs similar to [2]. However, if we introduce
> downstream versioning (as upstream is generally unresponsive), then we
> face the problem similar to [3].

Just wondering: is this getting punted to F22 now?

Regards, Joe




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