On Wed 14/12/11 21:08 , Josh Boyer jwbo...@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: >> >> http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-help/2011-12/msg00002.html > > 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. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
