[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#565242: libdb-dev: db4.8 breaks multiple programs

[Richard A Nelson]

Package: libdb-dev
Severity: important

Whilst creating a new sendmail package, I pulled in the current
libdb-dev (4.8), and found that the built package is broken - at least
the db related portions.
	>> # makemap hash access < access
	>> access.db: Invalid type 5 specified
	>> makemap: error opening type hash map access: Invalid argument 

Downgrading to db4.7 allows things to once again work.
A search showed this to be a known issue:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.sendmail/browse_thread/thread/681b0167dc95bf10
	http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294819

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libdb-dev depends on:
pn  libdb4.8-dev                  <none>     (no description available)

libdb-dev recommends no packages.

libdb-dev suggests no packages.