Bug#640247: jed: Fails to start correctly (gdbm-module.so not found)

[Marc-Jano Knopp]

Package: jed
Version: 1:0.99.19-2
Severity: important

After libslang2 got upgraded from 2.2.4-2 to 2.2.4-3, jed stopped
working (properly): upon start (even without ~/.jedrc), it shows the
error message

  Error linking to gdbm-module.so: gdbm-module.so: cannot open shared
  object file: No such file or directory

and leaves the user in some very basic, (for me) unusable mode (^Ke:
quit, ^Kg: get file, ^K^W: write file).

Downgrading to 2.2.4-2 makes jed work again.

There is a notable difference in available libraries (and their
paths!) between of the two libslang2 versions that might be the cause
of jed tripping:

$ ldconfig -p | grep slang

Version 2.2.4-2:
        libslang.so.2 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/libslang.so.2
	
Version 2.2.4-3:
        libslang.so.2 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libslang.so.2
        libslang.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libslang.so


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (25, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages jed depends on:
ii  jed-common  1:0.99.19-2
ii  libc6       2.13-16    
ii  libgpm2     1.20.4-4   
ii  libslang2   2.2.3-3    

jed recommends no packages.

Versions of packages jed suggests:
ii  gpm  1.20.4-4

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