Re: Bug#197875: python2.3: module dbm is missing
James Troup writes:
> Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
>
> > Encolpe DEGOUTE writes:
> >> Package: python2.3
> >> Version: 2.2.104-1beta1.1
> >> Severity: important
> >> Tags: sid
> >>
> >> Module dbm.so is missing in sid build.
> >
> > That's correct. The db1 compat headers aren't available anymore. Is
> > there really a need to have this module? why not use the anydbm module
> > (or explicitely the bsddb module).
> >
> > It could be build using the gdbm module, but this would add another
> > dependency on an optional library package (gdbm).
>
> Well that's a dependency perl already has so it's not necessarily a
> problem (at least from a 'priority' point of view - I'm not sure if
> that's what you meant by optional).
ok, that's what I meant.
Next thing to investigate, if the archives generated by the gdbm
implementation are binary compatible with the ones created by the
libdb1 implementation...
at least gdbmmodule.c reads: "Please note that the file formats
created by GDBM and dbm are incompatible." Or are the files
compatible, if gdbm is used via the gdbm-ndbm.h interface?
Matthias
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