[ This is an automated mail. ] Hi,
I've just uploaded a new version of gdbm to the archives. It's currently available from queue/accepted (i.e. http://incoming.debian.org/) and will hit mirrors in the next cron.daily at 6:52 GMT tomorrow (2003-06-04). It looks like this will affect the following packages you maintain: saml: saml_970418-10 xkbsel: xkbsel_0.13-13.1 The new version of gdbm bumps the library soname (from 2 to 3) and also the -dev package has been renamed to libgdbm-dev. Please update your build-depends and recompile your package. Although the ABI has changed, I don't think the API has, so no source changes should be required. The only exception to that is stuff using the old dbm and ndbm compatibility functions; they've been split out into a separate library, so in the unlikely event your package still uses them you'll need to explicitly link in the new gdbm_compat library (or even better update the code to use gdbm functions instead). The on-disk format of the database has _not_ changed; it should be a transparent upgrade in that regard. Given the small number of packages affected, no old -dev package has been created, so as of today's dinstall run, your package will become unbuildable from source (an RC bug). I'll file those bugs in a couple/several weeks time; this mail is just a heads up. gdbm is glacially slow upstream; I don't anticipate another soname change soon (the last one was ~10 years ago :), but I apologize in advance for the inconvenience. -- James
