[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#440714: Bug#440714: Bug#440714: libdb4.2: The latest upgrade seems to pose problem with cyrus and slapd database

[Florian Weimer]

* Clint Adams:

> On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:04:19PM +0200, Francois Lorrain wrote:
>> I had to downgrade libdb4.2 from 4.2.52+dfsg-3 to dfsg-2.1 otherwise 
>> Cyrus2.2 and slapd would not read their own databases ...
>
> Somebody should probably revert the mutex change.

What was the reason for that, anyway?

You can't change mutexes without changing the environment layout (data
structure sizes change), and to make matters worse, this is not
checked by the library.