Re: [libdbi-devel] libdbi in Debian being outdated and seems orphaned: can I take over the package?

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Quoting Thomas Goirand <th...@go...>:

> Hello,
>
> Bellow is the mail I received from the upstream of libdbi. The current
> maintainer, David Parker, is Cc: to this message, so he can reply if he
> is still interested in doing the maintenance.
>
> If David is not willing to continue maintaining it, I can try to take
> over the package.
>

Did you Thomas, or David, get any feedback from Jeremy Malcolm? I know =20
Jeremy from the RefDB mailing list, and I recall that he intended to =20
package RefDB and maybe libdbi too.

> The last entry in the Debian changelog is "Tue, 20 Jan 2004", which is
> quite old. And there's this "quite annoying" bug with no reply from the
> current maintainer:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D312115
>
> which made the lib removed from Etch.
>

I have never seen a crash like this on any recent version of libdbi. =20
However, I'm testing libdbi on FreeBSD and on Windows/Cygwin, and =20
there is always a chance that Debian is a little less forgiving in =20
terms of memory allocation errors. But then, I use valgrind to check =20
alloc problems quite frequently, and I didn't see any errors in libdbi =20
except that it may lose some memory. In any case you should keep in =20
mind that libdbi-drivers (not libdbi itself) contains a test program =20
(try "make check") that you can use to test all available drivers on =20
your particular platform. If that works ok, there are good chances =20
that the application using libdbi screwed up things and caused the =20
reported bug.

regards,
Markus


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