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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 01:38:23PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote:
>Hi,
>* Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> [2009-01-22 09:40]:
>> Netatalk store metadata in BerkeleyDB databases per fileshare. These 
>> databases are specific to the version of BerkeleyDB used and netatalk 
>> does not automatically upgrade databases when newer version of the 
>> BerkeleyDB library is used.
>> 
>> Netatalk build-depend on libdb-dev, which on Etch pulls in 
>> libdb4.2-dev but on recent Lenny instead pulls in libdb4.6-dev.
>> 
>> When users update to the recently released security update, all file 
>> shares will appear empty until the metadata databases are either 
>> manually updated or the databases removed to have new metadata be 
>> recreated from scratch.
>> 
>> Build-depending on libdb4.2-dev instead of libdb-dev fixes this 
>> issue.
>> 
>> Will it be ok for the Security team that I prepare a security update 
>> 2.0.3-11+lenny2 with above one-line fix?
>
>As I didn't touch the build-dependencies in the security 
>update and didn't really caused the breakage by myself I 
>would be more happy if you could fix this via t-p-u.

I agree: you did nothing wrong in your earlier security fix, the problem 
was a different issue that would occur at _any_ recent recompile.

I just thought that when occuring through lenny-security it was best to 
fix it at that same channel.

But ok, I go through release team to fix it there.


  - Jonas

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