[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#441763: Bug#441763: actually, no.

[Florian Weimer]

* Zack Weinberg:

> That being so, clearly libdb4.2 needs to get relinked against
> libpthread for the moment.  I would have preferred to fix this only in
> libc6 because that kind of for-the-moment change tends to get left
> long after it is unnecessary again, and libdb gets used all over the
> place, so the performance penalty will be general.  However, I
> recognize the binary compatibility problem.

libdb4.2 should not reference any pthread symbols; if it does, it's a
version that uses POSIX mutexes, and we can't do that because it
changes the on-disk layout of database environments, without Berkeley
DB properly detecting this situation. 8-(