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

[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.