Bug#324254: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#324254: db4.3: Add NPTL versions of DSOs

[Florian Weimer]

* Clint Adams:

>> It would be desirable to add NPTL versions of the DSOs.  The NPTL
>> cross-process mutexes are more scalable than Berkeley DB's approach.
>> (Traditional POSIX mutexes, before NPTL, are single-process, that's why
>> they are needed.)
>
> When the Debian glibc packages drop LinuxThreads support entirely, db4.3
> can be NPTL-only.  I don't know whether someone will do the work to ship
> a separate set of DSOs prior to that.

But you wouldn't object to a patch in principle, right?