Bug#263804: increase severity of libapr0-dev: [PATCH] : link coherently with Berkeley DB
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 12:02:11PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2004-08-09 David Kimdon <david@kimdon.org> wrote:
> > severity 263804 serious
> > thanks
>
> > As indicated earlier in the report aprutil links with DB 4.0 which the
> > rest of the package links with 4.2. That leaves apache linking with
> > two separate versions. In the past a similar multi-version link
> > between subversion and apache of berkeley DB caused segmentation
> > faults in apache.
> [...]
>
> This should not happen, have you got references for this? All versions
> of BerkeleyDB in Debian use versioned symbols which should make
> linking against two versions at runtime safe.
hmm, well I cannot find a reference. It is possible that the problem
I am remembering did not occur on a Debian system. Perhaps I should
just fix the subversion build to not get upset with the incoherent
linking. . .
-David
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