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freecdb: does not provide a shared library

Bug #8111 reported by Debian Bug Importer
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Bug Description

Automatically imported from Debian bug report #272127 http://bugs.debian.org/272127

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Automatically imported from Debian bug report #272127 http://bugs.debian.org/272127

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:14:27 +0200
From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: freecdb: does not provide a shared library

Package: freecdb
Version: 0.62
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 8

freecdb does not provide a shared library, even though policy requires
it to do so. This leads to bugs like #243007 (making vpopmail RC-buggy)
and possibly others.

If there is some good reason for freecdb not to be a shared library
(Policy 8.3), at the very least there should be a freecdb_pic version,
but I can't see any such reason.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1

Versions of packages freecdb depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- no debconf information

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

It is not a bug not to provide a shared library (not in Debian, either)

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In , Tommi Virtanen (tv) wrote : Re: Bug#272127: freecdb: does not provide a shared library

Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> freecdb does not provide a shared library, even though policy requires
> it to do so. This leads to bugs like #243007 (making vpopmail RC-buggy)
> and possibly others.
>
> If there is some good reason for freecdb not to be a shared library
> (Policy 8.3), at the very least there should be a freecdb_pic version,
> but I can't see any such reason.

--8<--
    In some cases, it is acceptable for a library to be available in
static form only; these cases include:

      * libraries for languages whose shared library support is immature
or unstable

      * libraries whose interfaces are in flux or under development
(commonly the case when the library's major version
        number is zero, or where the ABI breaks across patchlevels)

      * libraries which are explicitly intended to be available only in
static form by their upstream author(s)

                                                         --8<--

The last item very much matches freecdb.

The package consists of two static libraries, each one _less than 4kB_
in size. I see no point in making shared libraries of them, unless a
really compelling technical argument proves I _must_. And even then I'm
much happier just forcing people to migrate to tinycdb, a cleaner
reimplementation of the same idea, called tinycdb; any project that
isn't dead itself, and still depends on freecdb, should migrate to
tinycdb. TinyCDB even gets updated every once in a while.

The only reason freecdb exists is to support software that wants to use
djb's cdb, and it even isn't API-compatible with the newer versions of
cdb. I am upstream for this fork, and am officially stating that freecdb
is _DEAD DEAD DEAD_. Pining for the fjords!

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:03:26 +0300
From: Tommi Virtanen <email address hidden>
To: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#272127: freecdb: does not provide a shared library

Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> freecdb does not provide a shared library, even though policy requires
> it to do so. This leads to bugs like #243007 (making vpopmail RC-buggy)
> and possibly others.
>
> If there is some good reason for freecdb not to be a shared library
> (Policy 8.3), at the very least there should be a freecdb_pic version,
> but I can't see any such reason.

--8<--
    In some cases, it is acceptable for a library to be available in
static form only; these cases include:

      * libraries for languages whose shared library support is immature
or unstable

      * libraries whose interfaces are in flux or under development
(commonly the case when the library's major version
        number is zero, or where the ABI breaks across patchlevels)

      * libraries which are explicitly intended to be available only in
static form by their upstream author(s)

                                                         --8<--

The last item very much matches freecdb.

The package consists of two static libraries, each one _less than 4kB_
in size. I see no point in making shared libraries of them, unless a
really compelling technical argument proves I _must_. And even then I'm
much happier just forcing people to migrate to tinycdb, a cleaner
reimplementation of the same idea, called tinycdb; any project that
isn't dead itself, and still depends on freecdb, should migrate to
tinycdb. TinyCDB even gets updated every once in a while.

The only reason freecdb exists is to support software that wants to use
djb's cdb, and it even isn't API-compatible with the newer versions of
cdb. I am upstream for this fork, and am officially stating that freecdb
is _DEAD DEAD DEAD_. Pining for the fjords!

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In , Steinar H. Gunderson (sesse) wrote :

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:03:26PM +0300, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> The package consists of two static libraries, each one _less than 4kB_
> in size. I see no point in making shared libraries of them, unless a
> really compelling technical argument proves I _must_. And even then I'm
> much happier just forcing people to migrate to tinycdb, a cleaner
> reimplementation of the same idea, called tinycdb; any project that
> isn't dead itself, and still depends on freecdb, should migrate to
> tinycdb. TinyCDB even gets updated every once in a while.

In that case, please provide _pic versions, so freecdb can be used within
shared libraries. Either that, or vpopmail will probably have to be removed
(which is not unlikely, of course).

/* Steinar */
--
Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:55:38 +0200
From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <email address hidden>
To: Tommi Virtanen <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#272127: freecdb: does not provide a shared library

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:03:26PM +0300, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> The package consists of two static libraries, each one _less than 4kB_
> in size. I see no point in making shared libraries of them, unless a
> really compelling technical argument proves I _must_. And even then I'm
> much happier just forcing people to migrate to tinycdb, a cleaner
> reimplementation of the same idea, called tinycdb; any project that
> isn't dead itself, and still depends on freecdb, should migrate to
> tinycdb. TinyCDB even gets updated every once in a while.

In that case, please provide _pic versions, so freecdb can be used within
shared libraries. Either that, or vpopmail will probably have to be removed
(which is not unlikely, of course).

/* Steinar */
--
Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/

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In , Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

tags 272127 sarge-ignore
thanks

This is only a serious bug in the sense that it affects the vpopmail
package, which needs to be able to build against a PIC version (shared
or static) of this library. However, vpopmail has already been removed
from testing, so the "serious"ness of this bug does not affect sarge.

Cheers,
--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:22:52 -0700
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: freecdb: does not provide a shared library

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tags 272127 sarge-ignore
thanks

This is only a serious bug in the sense that it affects the vpopmail
package, which needs to be able to build against a PIC version (shared
or static) of this library. However, vpopmail has already been removed
=66rom testing, so the "serious"ness of this bug does not affect sarge.

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In , Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Hi Tommi,

Since freecdb was already considered dead roughly a year ago, should we be
thinking about pulling it from etch and forcing its reverse-dependencies to
migrate to tinycdb?

Thanks,
--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:28:30 -0700
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: freecdb: does not provide a shared library

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Hi Tommi,

Since freecdb was already considered dead roughly a year ago, should we be
thinking about pulling it from etch and forcing its reverse-dependencies to
migrate to tinycdb?

Thanks,
--=20
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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In , Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

clone 272127 -1 -2 -3
reassign -1 dbskkd-cdb
reassign -2 skkdic
reassign -3 skksearch
thanks

Kawamura-san,

In bug #272127, the maintainer (and upstream) of freecdb had this to say
about the package:

  I'm much happier just forcing people to migrate to tinycdb, a cleaner
  reimplementation of the same idea, called tinycdb; any project that
  isn't dead itself, and still depends on freecdb, should migrate to
  tinycdb. TinyCDB even gets updated every once in a while.

  The only reason freecdb exists is to support software that wants to
  use djb's cdb, and it even isn't API-compatible with the newer
  versions of cdb. I am upstream for this fork, and am officially
  stating that freecdb is _DEAD DEAD DEAD_. Pining for the fjords!

It seems that you have three packages: skksearch, skkdic, and dbskkd-cdb
that build-depend on freecdb. Can these packages be migrated to
TinyCDB, as Tommi suggests? This would let us remove freecdb from the
archive, which sounds like it would be a good thing.

Thanks,
--
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
<email address hidden> http://www.debian.org/

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 00:33:25 -0700
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: Takao KAWAMURA <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: freecdb: does not provide a shared library

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clone 272127 -1 -2 -3
reassign -1 dbskkd-cdb
reassign -2 skkdic
reassign -3 skksearch
thanks

Kawamura-san,

In bug #272127, the maintainer (and upstream) of freecdb had this to say
about the package:

  I'm much happier just forcing people to migrate to tinycdb, a cleaner
  reimplementation of the same idea, called tinycdb; any project that
  isn't dead itself, and still depends on freecdb, should migrate to
  tinycdb. TinyCDB even gets updated every once in a while.

  The only reason freecdb exists is to support software that wants to
  use djb's cdb, and it even isn't API-compatible with the newer
  versions of cdb. I am upstream for this fork, and am officially
  stating that freecdb is _DEAD DEAD DEAD_. Pining for the fjords!

It seems that you have three packages: skksearch, skkdic, and dbskkd-cdb
that build-depend on freecdb. Can these packages be migrated to
TinyCDB, as Tommi suggests? This would let us remove freecdb from the
archive, which sounds like it would be a good thing.

Thanks,
--=20
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
<email address hidden> http://www.debian.org/

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In , Nathanael Nerode (neroden-twcny) wrote : remove freecdb

retitle 272127 RM: freecdb (RoM, RoQA, RoUpstream, dead upstream, superseded by tinycdb)
tags 272127 -sarge-ignore
severity 272127 normal
reassign 272127 ftp.debian.org
thanks

This was just waiting for all the reverse depends of freecdb to be
transitioned to tinycdb. This has now been done, so freecdb can be removed
from the archive, and we can all celebrate.

--
Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org>
Doom! Doooooom!

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:32:52 -0500
From: <email address hidden> (Nathanael Nerode)
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: remove freecdb

retitle 272127 RM: freecdb (RoM, RoQA, RoUpstream, dead upstream, superseded by tinycdb)
tags 272127 -sarge-ignore
severity 272127 normal
reassign 272127 ftp.debian.org
thanks

This was just waiting for all the reverse depends of freecdb to be
transitioned to tinycdb. This has now been done, so freecdb can be removed
from the archive, and we can all celebrate.

--
Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org>
Doom! Doooooom!

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In , Nathanael Nerode (neroden-twcny) wrote : FreeCDB

FTPmasters should note that all the reverse depends of freecdb have been
migrated to tinycdb, so it is safe to remove freecdb now.

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In , Nathanael Nerode (neroden-twcny) wrote : retitle

retitle 272127 RM: freecdb -- RoM; RoQA; RoUpstream; dead upstream; superseded
by tinycdb
thanks

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 15:08:51 -0500
From: Nathanael Nerode <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: FreeCDB

FTPmasters should note that all the reverse depends of freecdb have been
migrated to tinycdb, so it is safe to remove freecdb now.

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 15:10:06 -0500
From: Nathanael Nerode <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: retitle

retitle 272127 RM: freecdb -- RoM; RoQA; RoUpstream; dead upstream; superseded
by tinycdb
thanks

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In , Jeroen van Wolffelaar (jeroenvw) wrote : Re: remove freecdb

tags 272127 moreinfo
retitle 272127 RM: freecdb -- RoM; dead upstream, superseded by tinycdb
thanks

On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 12:32:52AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> This was just waiting for all the reverse depends of freecdb to be
> transitioned to tinycdb. This has now been done, so freecdb can be removed
> from the archive, and we can all celebrate.

cvm, mailfront and vpopmail are not migrated yet, so it hasn't been done
yet. I only checked cvm, and on that package, there isn't even a bug
filed requesting it to be migrated.

What's up?

--Jeroen

--
Jeroen van Wolffelaar
<email address hidden>
http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:12:35 +0100
From: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <email address hidden>
To: Nathanael Nerode <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: remove freecdb

tags 272127 moreinfo
retitle 272127 RM: freecdb -- RoM; dead upstream, superseded by tinycdb
thanks

On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 12:32:52AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> This was just waiting for all the reverse depends of freecdb to be
> transitioned to tinycdb. This has now been done, so freecdb can be removed
> from the archive, and we can all celebrate.

cvm, mailfront and vpopmail are not migrated yet, so it hasn't been done
yet. I only checked cvm, and on that package, there isn't even a bug
filed requesting it to be migrated.

What's up?

--Jeroen

--
Jeroen van Wolffelaar
<email address hidden>
http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

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In , Nathanael Nerode (neroden-twcny) wrote :

Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> tags 272127 moreinfo
> retitle 272127 RM: freecdb -- RoM; dead upstream, superseded by tinycdb
> thanks
>
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 12:32:52AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
>
>>This was just waiting for all the reverse depends of freecdb to be
>>transitioned to tinycdb. This has now been done, so freecdb can be removed
>>from the archive, and we can all celebrate.
>
>
> cvm, mailfront and vpopmail are not migrated yet, so it hasn't been done
> yet. I only checked cvm, and on that package, there isn't even a bug
> filed requesting it to be migrated.
>
> What's up?

Oops, missed some. :-P Finding reverse build-depends (when there are
no "Depends") is annoyingly difficult. Got a script which does it
efficiently and accurately? :-P Cause I'd really like one.

"Important" bugs filed on those three, but I frankly have no idea
whether I've got them all.

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 06:00:36 -0500
From: Nathanael Nerode <email address hidden>
To: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <email address hidden>
CC: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: remove freecdb

Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> tags 272127 moreinfo
> retitle 272127 RM: freecdb -- RoM; dead upstream, superseded by tinycdb
> thanks
>
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 12:32:52AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
>
>>This was just waiting for all the reverse depends of freecdb to be
>>transitioned to tinycdb. This has now been done, so freecdb can be removed
>>from the archive, and we can all celebrate.
>
>
> cvm, mailfront and vpopmail are not migrated yet, so it hasn't been done
> yet. I only checked cvm, and on that package, there isn't even a bug
> filed requesting it to be migrated.
>
> What's up?

Oops, missed some. :-P Finding reverse build-depends (when there are
no "Depends") is annoyingly difficult. Got a script which does it
efficiently and accurately? :-P Cause I'd really like one.

"Important" bugs filed on those three, but I frankly have no idea
whether I've got them all.

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In , Adam D. Barratt (debian-bts-adam-barratt) wrote : Re: Bug#272127: remove freecdb

On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 06:00 -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
 [...]
> > cvm, mailfront and vpopmail are not migrated yet, so it hasn't been done
> > yet. I only checked cvm, and on that package, there isn't even a bug
> > filed requesting it to be migrated.
> >
> > What's up?
>
> Oops, missed some. :-P Finding reverse build-depends (when there are
> no "Depends") is annoyingly difficult. Got a script which does it
> efficiently and accurately? :-P Cause I'd really like one.

It should be fairly trivial for a single distribution and architecture,
given an appropriate deb-src line in sources.list (extending beyond a
single distribution would require some further work on the apt-cache
invocation), viz:

#!/bin/sh
BINPKGS="($(apt-cache showsrc $1 | egrep "^Binary:" | cut -d" " -f2- | \
  sed -e 's/, /|/g'))"
grep-dctrl -sPackage -e -FBuild-Depends "$BINPKGS" \
  /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Sources | sort -g | uniq

and pass it a source package name. Extending it to cope with binary
package names isn't particularly difficult.

Regards,

Adam

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:44:19 +0000
From: "Adam D. Barratt" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, Nathanael Nerode <email address hidden>
Cc: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#272127: remove freecdb

On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 06:00 -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
 [...]
> > cvm, mailfront and vpopmail are not migrated yet, so it hasn't been done
> > yet. I only checked cvm, and on that package, there isn't even a bug
> > filed requesting it to be migrated.
> >
> > What's up?
>
> Oops, missed some. :-P Finding reverse build-depends (when there are
> no "Depends") is annoyingly difficult. Got a script which does it
> efficiently and accurately? :-P Cause I'd really like one.

It should be fairly trivial for a single distribution and architecture,
given an appropriate deb-src line in sources.list (extending beyond a
single distribution would require some further work on the apt-cache
invocation), viz:

#!/bin/sh
BINPKGS="($(apt-cache showsrc $1 | egrep "^Binary:" | cut -d" " -f2- | \
  sed -e 's/, /|/g'))"
grep-dctrl -sPackage -e -FBuild-Depends "$BINPKGS" \
  /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Sources | sort -g | uniq

and pass it a source package name. Extending it to cope with binary
package names isn't particularly difficult.

Regards,

Adam

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In , Gerrit Pape (pape-dbnbgs) wrote : Re: Bug#345422: cvm: freecdb is dead, please switch to tinycdb

retitle 272127 ITA: freecdb -- creating and reading constant databases
reassign 272127 wnpp
owner 272127 !
severity 272127 normal
quit

On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 05:57:17AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Package: cvm
> Severity: important
>
> See bug 272127 for more about freecdb.

In my opinion freecdb isn't dead. The library is included in many
software projects, also one done by myself. It's very stable and
bug-free, and so doesn't need many changes if at all, not sure yet
about the added programs. I intend to adopt the package to keep
the good quality code available through the Debian archive.

Regards, Gerrit.

BTW: tinycdb seems to be orphaned currently.

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:27:09 +0100
From: Gerrit Pape <email address hidden>
To: Nathanael Nerode <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#345422: cvm: freecdb is dead, please switch to tinycdb

retitle 272127 ITA: freecdb -- creating and reading constant databases
reassign 272127 wnpp
owner 272127 !
severity 272127 normal
quit

On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 05:57:17AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Package: cvm
> Severity: important
>
> See bug 272127 for more about freecdb.

In my opinion freecdb isn't dead. The library is included in many
software projects, also one done by myself. It's very stable and
bug-free, and so doesn't need many changes if at all, not sure yet
about the added programs. I intend to adopt the package to keep
the good quality code available through the Debian archive.

Regards, Gerrit.

BTW: tinycdb seems to be orphaned currently.

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In , Nathanael Nerode (neroden-twcny) wrote : freecdb not releaseable in current form

clone 272127 -1
reassign -1 freecdb
retitle -1 freecdb: must provide shared library or _pic library
tags -1 -moreinfo
severity -1 serious
tags 272127 -moreinfo
thanks

See the bug trail; this is what the bug started out as originally.

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:23:58 -0500
From: Nathanael Nerode <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: freecdb not releaseable in current form

clone 272127 -1
reassign -1 freecdb
retitle -1 freecdb: must provide shared library or _pic library
tags -1 -moreinfo
severity -1 serious
tags 272127 -moreinfo
thanks

See the bug trail; this is what the bug started out as originally.

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In , Gerrit Pape (pape-dbnbgs) wrote :

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 06:14:27PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> Package: freecdb
> Version: 0.62
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 8
>
> freecdb does not provide a shared library, even though policy requires
> it to do so. This leads to bugs like #243007 (making vpopmail RC-buggy)
> and possibly others.
>
> If there is some good reason for freecdb not to be a shared library
> (Policy 8.3), at the very least there should be a freecdb_pic version,
> but I can't see any such reason.

cdb is intended to be available only available in static form by
upstream; this is a valid exception as per policy 8.3. The actual
problem is (was?) in vpopmail's packaging.

Thanks, Gerrit.

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In , Gerrit Pape (pape-dbnbgs) wrote :

reopen 272127
owner 272127 !
thanks
doh.

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <20060104084517.27431.qmail@0a5e3f0f6c0724.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:45:17 +0100
From: Gerrit Pape <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: freecdb: does not provide a shared library

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 06:14:27PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> Package: freecdb
> Version: 0.62
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 8
>
> freecdb does not provide a shared library, even though policy requires
> it to do so. This leads to bugs like #243007 (making vpopmail RC-buggy)
> and possibly others.
>
> If there is some good reason for freecdb not to be a shared library
> (Policy 8.3), at the very least there should be a freecdb_pic version,
> but I can't see any such reason.

cdb is intended to be available only available in static form by
upstream; this is a valid exception as per policy 8.3. The actual
problem is (was?) in vpopmail's packaging.

Thanks, Gerrit.

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <20060104090950.29809.qmail@34dee1ca8ef8f1.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 10:09:50 +0100
From: Gerrit Pape <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>

reopen 272127
owner 272127 !
thanks
doh.

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In , Gerrit Pape (pape) wrote : Bug#272127: fixed in freecdb 0.75

Source: freecdb
Source-Version: 0.75

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
freecdb, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

freecdb_0.75.dsc
  to pool/main/f/freecdb/freecdb_0.75.dsc
freecdb_0.75.tar.gz
  to pool/main/f/freecdb/freecdb_0.75.tar.gz
freecdb_0.75_ia64.deb
  to pool/main/f/freecdb/freecdb_0.75_ia64.deb

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to <email address hidden>,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Gerrit Pape <email address hidden> (supplier of updated freecdb package)

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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:11:53 +0000
Source: freecdb
Binary: freecdb
Architecture: source ia64
Version: 0.75
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Gerrit Pape <email address hidden>
Changed-By: Gerrit Pape <email address hidden>
Description:
 freecdb - creating and reading constant databases
Closes: 124639 272127 307116 345868
Changes:
 freecdb (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * take over upstream (closes: #272127).
   * complete re-package:
     * derived from cdb-0.75.
     * cdbmake, cdbget, cdbdump, cdbstats: re-write programs, man pages.
     * add program selftests.
     * package no longer provides a library, but command line programs only
       (closes: #345868).
     * debian/control: new long description (closes: #124639).
   * new upload includes mandatory field 'format' (closes: #307116).
Files:
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 ecdf409a1124feb0a29af19b665a62ad 239385 utils optional freecdb_0.75.tar.gz
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