On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:31:59PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > On 17.4.2011, at 22:17, Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> wrote: > > I'm somewhat inclined to just throw in the towel, switch to libdb-dev > > (Ubuntu already does), and let somebody else worry about db transition > > risks. It's not like I know much about them anyway. > > Do that pretty please;-). I'll guarantee that I'll handle the > transitions more gracefully, so there will be only one change per release.
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 03:40:39PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > Hmm. I also don't have any particular expertise in libdb. > I don't think manually patching the Configure script to accommodate > this Debian-specific oddness is very desirable (although I certainly > appreciate your effort to make it as painless as possible in the attached > patch!), so if we can simply use libdb-dev, on the advice of the db > maintainers, that would be the best solution as far as I can see. It > means that the transition would become the responsibility of (and under > the control of) those who have elected to be responsible for the library, > which is probably not a bad thing. I suppose we'd still want a way of > being notified of upcoming transitions, but that's something we can > hopefully get already through Release team announcements, etc. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 04:47:50PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/BerkeleyDB > http://wiki.debian.org/BerkeleyDB OK, I'm convinced. Let's go for libdb-dev then. I'm happy to hand this responsibility to the libdb maintainers. FWIW, I inherited the versioned libdb-dev dependencies and have never discussed them with the previous perl maintainers. The DB transitions we've done so far have been very rare, but I'm aware we've been lagging behind. I suspect the versioned dependencies go back to perl (5.8.0-7) unstable; urgency=low [...] * NOTE: DB_File now uses libdb4.0 (previously libdb2). Any DB_File databases created with earlier perl packages will need to be upgraded before being used with the current module with the db4.0_upgrade program (in the libdb4.0-util package, with HTML docs in db4.0-doc). [...] -- Brendan O'Dea <b...@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2002 04:05:42 +1100 I hope such incompatibilities will not happen in the future :) I'll try and get the change uploaded by the weekend (but Dominic, feel free to pick this up if you like.) Thanks Ondřej, -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org