[2018-10-15 20:18] Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> > > I am sorry to say it, but probably binNMU or sourceful upload would > > be required for all packages, that bundle gdbm databases, generated > > by (gdbm << 1.9) > > This sounds really sad. So even the gdbm we have in our current stable > release is too old to be supported anymore! > > Any packaged databases are easily rebuilt, but what about local user > databases? I think breaking compat with those is horrible, and I don't > even see a way to recover their contents after they've upgraded gdbm.
Well, you can use gdbm_dump/stable. What else? * I can write debian/NEWS to warn about incompatibility. * We can introduce new source package, that provides gdbmtool out of gdbm-1.8 (I am not fan of this idea)
