gdbm soname change in Rawhide, package rebuild needed

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Mar 16 19:14:36 UTC 2010


Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
> > However, it makes no sense to use compat-gdbm for a long time, as the 
> > API is the same, and no source code changes are needed in packages using 
> > gdbm-1.8.0 to use gdbm-1.8.3.
> 
> I don't see much problem with removing compat-gdbm once all our
> dependent packages are rebuilt.

My concern would be if gdbm is a widely-enough used ABI that we'd want
to keep it like we keep compat-db or compat-openssl.

Bill


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