[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#565242: Bug#565242: Bug#565242: libdb-dev: db4.8 breaks multiple programs

[Clint Adams]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 06:49:53AM +0000, Clint Adams wrote:
> Could you confirm that db->open is being called with dbtype equal to 2?

Well, it is, and BDB 4.8 certainly seems brain-damaged, because it's calling

 ret = __db_open(tdbp, ip, txn, fname, dname, DB_UNKNOWN,
                     flags &  ~(DB_TRUNCATE|DB_CREATE), mode, meta_pgno);

itself and then expecting ret to be 0.  Or perhaps I'm missing something.