[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#730402: bitcoind: There is no stable bitcoind version for wheezy

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Package: bitcoind
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I've tried to install bitcoin daemon (package "bitcoind") and didn't find it in
wheezy repository.
I found out the reason: Bitcoin uses Berkeley DB version 4.8 to store its data,
but in wheezy a lot of software uses Berkeley DB version 5.1.
Bitcoin developers (see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin ) explain in readme-
files
that using v.5.1 of DB with their software "will break binary wallet
compatibility".
Here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621425 this problem was
discussed.
Now the bug considered as fixed, because "bitcoind" pakage, which works with
v.5.1 of DB,
was placed in sid repository. But what should do users of stable release?

I tried to compile sources from github.com. Bitcoin daemon successfully started
and even responds to JSON requests. BUT:

1. Sometimes JSON connection to daemon cannon be established (tens of attempts
don't help).
I don't understand why. Usually after five minutes things come to norm.

2. What is the worst: From time to time, after restart of daemon, DB of blocks
turn out to be
COMPLETELY PURGED: "getblockcount" request returns "0" and process of DB
filling starts
from beginning. :-(

What can I do to get correctly working bitcoin daemon?

Sincerely,
epros



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bitcoind depends on:
pn  libboost-filesystem1.54.0       <none>
pn  libboost-program-options1.54.0  <none>
pn  libboost-system1.54.0           <none>
pn  libboost-thread1.54.0           <none>
ii  libc6                           2.13-38
ii  libdb5.1++                      5.1.29-5
ii  libgcc1                         1:4.7.2-5
pn  libminiupnpc5                   <none>
ii  libssl1.0.0                     1.0.1e-2
ii  libstdc++6                      4.7.2-5
ii  zlib1g                          1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

bitcoind recommends no packages.

Versions of packages bitcoind suggests:
pn  db-util     <none>
pn  db4.8-util  <none>