On Wed 14/12/11 21:08 , Josh Boyer jwboyer@gmail.com sent:
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Mark R Bannister <mark at proseconsulting.co.uk>
that the nss_db package has been deprecated, and that the new nss_db support in glibc no longer uses Berkeley DB format.
I appreciate your concerns, but unfortunately most of the glibc development decisions happen in the upstream glibc community, and we in Fedora don't always have a lot of pull when it comes to those sorts of decisions. Have you expressed your concerns directly to the glibc community?
I have now:
You might want to resend that to the libc-alpha list. Development discussions take place there, and the upstream maintainers don't read libc-help all that often.
josh
Thanks Josh, I've done that now too:
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2011-12/msg00036.html
But I think in Fedora perhaps you should consider the repercussions of this change yourselves, and try to deal with the compatibility issues it raises. For a start, perhaps you should reverse the decision to deprecate your separate nss_db package, and continue to package nss_db separately using source from http://sf.net/projects/nssdb.
If this isn't fixed now, in Fedora, then it's likely to cause more pain when it finally reaches RHEL. I personally don't think that the glibc maintainers are going to pay much attention to this (although I admit I might be wrong on that account, perhaps I'm just impatient but I've had no acknowledgement from them yet on the subject).
Best regards, Mark.