BerkeleyDB 6 symbol versioning and associated problems

[Florian Weimer]

On 05/07/2014 03:19 PM, 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].

If upstream is unresponsive, why even upgrade to a new version with 
licensing-related challenges?

Anyway, have you investigated if you can use the upstream symbol 
mangling mechanism?

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team