gdbm soname change in Rawhide, package rebuild needed

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Mar 10 18:00:22 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 18:25 +0100, Karel Klic wrote:
> 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. 

Since buildroots are broken once this change gets into the build roots,
I'm working on the perl and python rebuilds so that others can get
going.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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