Re: git: 5f9d389f299a - main - databases/lmdb0: Add port for LMDB 0.9.x legacy ABI

Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> commit 5f9d389f299ac8124a5114c2f014984390b6fd1e
> Author:     Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2026-07-05 16:47:09 +0000
> Commit:     Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2026-07-06 15:57:32 +0000
>
>     databases/lmdb0: Add port for LMDB 0.9.x legacy ABI
>     
>     LMDB 1.0 introduced an incompatible on-disk format change and subtle
>     API breakage: applications that compiled cleanly against 1.0 headers
>     could fail silently at run time. Known affected ports include dns/knot3,
>     mail/bogofilter, and mail/postfix; the postfix issue has been confirmed
>     upstream. Linux distributions such as Arch Linux have observed the same
>     breakage. Samba can also be affected in certain configurations.
>     
>     Because the regression is not detectable in an -exp build run -- the
>     postfix failure only manifests at run time, and bogofilter was caught
>     only because post-build self-tests happen to exercise this path -- we
>     cannot rely on package builds to validate the 1.0 upgrade.
>     
>     This commit introduces databases/lmdb0 as a holding port for the 0.9.35
>     release, pinned to the 0.x branch with PORTSCOUT=limit:^0. and mutually
>     conflicting with databases/lmdb, which retains 1.0. The two packages
>     cannot be installed simultaneously, but having lmdb0 available means:
>     
>     * Ports known to require the 0.9 ABI can declare an explicit dependency
>       on databases/lmdb0 until they are validated against 1.0.
>     * Users with existing databases in the 0.9 format can still access the
>       mdb_dump and mdb_load utilities to migrate data before upgrading.
>     * The package conflict prevents accidental mixing.
>     
>     All 50 direct dependents of databases/lmdb are redirected to
>     databases/lmdb0 for now with a PORTREVISION bump, effectively restoring
>     the tree to the state prior to the LMDB 1.0 update. Once all dependent
>     ports are validated against LMDB 1.0, they will be moved back to
>     databases/lmdb and databases/lmdb0 will be removed.

Thank you!

DES
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