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Bug#46106: libndbm.so



On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 at 22:26, Raphael Hertzog wrote about "libndbm.so":

> First, there was absolutely no need for a severity grave ! This bug if it
> exists would cause no major problem (data loss and so on). Please justifiy
> the severity of the bug since bugs > important will be listed as release
> critical...

As far as I understand things, having a missing library has the potential
for data-loss. I'll accept your opinion though as it's definitely more
expert than mine.

> And now I have the latest potato and I don't have your problem :

I said that I had manually installed the unstable (potato) version -- IOW,
I didn't upgrade the whole system, just the unstable version and anything
it required and suggested.

> ~@k6$ ls -la /usr/lib/libndbm.so 
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            8 Sep 26 21:32 /usr/lib/libndbm.so -> libdb.so

This above part I didn't have done.

> There is no /lib/libndbm.so and no /lib/libndbm-2.1.2.so ... those files
> don't exist in Debian potato at all :

Right, but I believe /lib/libndbm.so existed in slink.

> $ dpkg -S /lib/libndbm.so

dpkg: /lib/libndbm.so not found.

> $ dpkg -l '*db*' | grep ^ii

ii  cddb            2.3-5          CD DataBase support tools
ii  libdb2          2.4.14-1       The Berkeley database routines (run-time fil
ii  libgdbmg1       1.7.3-25       GNU dbm database routines (runtime version).
ii  libmldbm-perl   2.00-1         MLDBM perl module
ii  man-db          2.3.10-69FIX.1 Display the on-line manual.

> $ dpkg -l libc6-dev

This could be the problem, as this is still the slink version. Regardless,
the error occurred as a result of upgrading libc6 package to unstable
without upgrading libc6-dev -- and thus that should be fixed.

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  libc6-dev       2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: Development libraries and hea

Thanks,
-- 
Brock Rozen                                              brozen@torah.org
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