Re: Bug#197875: python2.3: module dbm is missing
Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
> emulating the BDB 1.85 API can be done using the db_185.h header of
> the libdb4.1-dev package, not sure about the BDB on-disk format.
Emulating the API is irrelevant. In Python 2.3, the bsddb package will
emulate the bsddb module API. Using db_185.h of BDB 4.x will still
cause creation of BDB 4 data files. So it should *not* be linked to
bsddb185. Any installation of bsddb185 needs to guarantee that the
files it creates are really 1.85 files.
> Is there a similiar workaround for 2.2.3? Of course the bsddb185
> module could be backported.
Backporting would only be reasonable if you had a library to link
against. If Debian has no library anymore that creates 1.85 data
files, there is no point in providing a wrapper module around this
non-existing module.
> what about deprecating the use of the dbm module upstream for 2.3?
No. Most systems offer on-disk compatibility of files created by the
ndbm over a long period of time. So the module works just fine, except
on Linux.
Regards,
Martin
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