gdbm soname change in Rawhide, package rebuild needed

Karel Klic kklic at redhat.com
Wed Mar 10 17:25:18 UTC 2010


A newer version of gdbm (1.8.0->1.8.3) has been pushed into rawhide 
(devel) branch. This version changes libgdbm soname, so all packages 
using gdbm _must be rebuilt_.

The soname change is needed as the new version moves dbm and ndbm 
routines to separate library gdbm_compat.

The new version fixes a memory leak. I also added some fixes from Debian 
preventing uninitialized memory contents to be stored in databases and 
fixing potential database read failures.

Affected packages: (maintainers are CCed)
am-utils
avahi
clisp
compat-python24
freeradius
fsvs
gauche
gnu-smalltalk
jpilot-backup
lighttpd
Macaulay2
maildrop
mt-daapd
ntop
ocaml
OpenIPMI
parrot
perl
perl-eperl
perl-XML-LibXSLT
pulseaudio
python
q
qfaxreader
qsf
ruby
snobol
tcl-thread
vacation

Thanks.

Best regards,
Karel



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