On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 01:20:55PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > Package: libgdbm6 > Version: 1.18-2 > Severity: grave > X-Debbugs-Cc: p...@packages.debian.org, > libmarc-charset-p...@packages.debian.org > > The libgdbm6 transition broke autopkgtest checks of src:perl and > libmarc-charset-perl. > > It looks like some GDBM databases which were working with the older > gdbm are not readable any more with the new one.
Just to clarify, I've set the severity to 'grave' as it currently looks probable that all GDBM (and NDBM, which presumably uses GDBM under the hood) database files created with Perl bindings at their default settings are unusable with the new gdbm version. If they are indeed broken somehow and can't / won't be supported any more, I think we need a transition period and some way to warn users that they need to recover their local database files. But it would obviously be much nicer to keep backward compatibility. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
