On 2011-06-19 Regid Ichira <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: exim4-base > Version: 4.76-2 > Severity: normal
> 4.76-2's postinst has a paranoia code to handle BerkeleyDB upgrades. > On any db upgrade, it throws away hints databases. > 1. A possible ratelimit db is not mentioned. Thanks for the hint, fixed in SVN. > 2. I think the paranoia code is not required. Won't an exim_dumpdb fail > due to an incompatible upgrade? [...] It should, however in the past berkeley-db sometimes has broken rather spectacularily when given a incompatible file. See e.g. the resolution to <http://bugs.debian.org/360696>. I think that the benefit of not triggering stuff like this outweighs losing the hints once every two years. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
