Bug#891005: RFS: gdbm/1.14.1-5

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

Gianfranco Costamagna writes:
>>This means building the package will give different results depending
>>on dietlibc-dev installed or not?  That shouldn't happen...
>>
>>Please check via some other means that a build using dietlibc has been
>>requested; don't do different things just because a package happens to
>>be installed.
> mmm the result is not a different library, but an additional static library put
> in a non-standard directory, built with another glibc.
> I think there is nothing to worry about :)
>
> this is the path:
> /usr/lib/*/diet/*/libgdbm.a

It is a problem as the package might provide different functionality
when someone else builds and uploads it.

We had problems with packages built in non-clean environments for a long
time, though it has admittedly become better with most (not all)
developers building packages in clean environments (sbuild, pbuilder,
...) or using source-only uploads.

Ansgar