Package: libgdbm4
Version: 1.12-2
Severity: normal

Your package contains message catalogs named
/usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/gdbm.mo.  This is problematic since
there will be a clash when libgdbm5 comes along, see Policy ยง 8.2:

,----
| 8.2. Shared library support files
| ---------------------------------
| 
|      If your package contains files whose names do not change with each
|      change in the library shared object version, you must not put them in
|      the shared library package.  Otherwise, several versions of the shared
|      library cannot be installed at the same time without filename clashes,
|      making upgrades and transitions unnecessarily difficult.
`----

I'd suggest to move these files into a new gdbm-l10n package.
Alternatively, the DOMAIN variable in po/Makevars could be changed to
include the soname; this is something you might want to discuss with
upstream.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.2-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libgdbm4 depends on:
ii  libc6  2.22-12

libgdbm4 recommends no packages.

libgdbm4 suggests no packages.

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