request for FreeTDS library transition: libct3 -> libct4

[Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>]

Hi folks,

This is a request to allow a long-overdue library transition for the new
upstream version of FreTDS.  The library in question, libct3, has the
following reverse-dependencies in unstable:

Package: asterisk
Package: gda2-freetds
Package: libdbd-freetds
Package: libdbd-sybase-perl
Package: libgda3-freetds
Package: sqlrelay-freetds
Package: sqsh

Of these, asterisk is currently tied to the popt migration, which I'm happy
to wait for before going binNMU-happy.

The php5-sybase and python-pymssql packages build against FreeTDS but use
the libsybdb5 package, which has not undergone an ABI change.

I'm preparing an upload of the lib to experimental currently; I don't
actually have any plans to do a comprehensive rebuild test, because the APIs
of libct and libsybdb are locked in for compatibility with non-free
implementations and therefore any build problems would be identified early
upstream and unequivocally considered bugs in FreeTDS itself.

Do we have room for me to sneak this in as a last-minute lib transition for
lenny?

Thanks,
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