Re: libdb3?

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:07:45PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Richard A Nelson <cowboy@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > The problems occur with packages like sendmail - which includes ldap
> > and sasl libraries (which also link against db)...  More problematic
> > is the hidden dependancies created by nsswitch - which can also be using
> > db.
> 
> What should happen is to have the soname of any library which links against
> libdb3 changed.  Unfortunately this has to be done upstream.

No, that will not work. The soname does not stop from loading db2/db3
together in one program. The dependency chain is too large to account
for this.

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