BerkeleyDB 6 symbol versioning and associated problems

[Miloslav Trmač]

----- Original Message -----
> 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?

The current plan is to not ship v6 in F21, and there are no agreed plans to ship it in any future release either.  See https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1291 for the full history of the debate.
    Mirek