[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#700908: new upstream version (tag?) (maybe?) available

[Antoine Beaupré]

After a night of testing, I can confirm 0.8 works *much* better. As I
was told in #700908, the database storage for blocks has changed, and
performs much better.

It seems that the old block database is left lying around however, so
user intervention is needed to finish the upgrade.

Here I had to rm ~/.bitcoin/blk* to remove duplicate data from the other
block database, now stored in ~/.bitcoin/blocks/.

Since 0.8 depends on the LevelDB database, it is quite likely that the
build-deps and run-deps need to be changed.

There are probably other pitfalls that I missed during the upgrade
because I didn't build in a sandbox, but that's what I could find so
far.

Cheers,

A.

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