2011/4/7 Dominic Hargreaves <d...@earth.li>: > found 621383 5.12.3-2 > thanks > > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:44:42PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: >> Package: perl >> Version: 5.10.1-19 >> Severity: normal >> User: pkg-db-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org >> Usertags: db5.1 >> >> Your package currently still uses Berkeley DB version 4.7 (libdb4.7). >> >> However, there is a newer Berkeley DB version in the archive (libdb5.1), >> with a compatible API. Berkeley DB version 4.7 will be eventually >> removed from unstable in favor of version 5.1. >> >> Please port your package to libdb5.1 as soon as possible. In most cases >> only change required is to update build depends from libdb4.7-dev >> to libdb-dev, or just recompile the package. > > I propose that we tackle this in 5.12/experimental first; I imagine > that there is a potential for some breakage when updating the version > of libdb in use by perl, and if we are able to proceed with the perl-5.12 > transition[1] in the next few months then hopefully this won't be too much > of a burden on the libdb maintainers, and will avoid too many separate > rounds of breakage. > > Ondřej, any thoughts on this plan?
Sound great! And I fully agree that packages like perl/python/... should be cautious when updating BDB since it may cause breakages elsewhere down the chain. O. -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> http://blog.rfc1925.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
