[Pkg-db-devel] potential patch to db3?

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 03:10:50PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
> >  Standards-Version: 3.5.8
> 
> May as well go to 3.6.1.
> 
> > + The Berkeley Databases are one of the most common used databases. Please
> > + see the respective db2, db4.0, db4.1 and db4.2 packages for other versions
> > + of this package.
> 
> I think this could be reworded better, but I have no constructive
> replacement right now.

s/respective// ?

The Berkeley Databases are one of the most common used databases. Please
see the db2, db4.0, db4.1 and db4.2 packages for other versions of
this package.

OTOH, I'd probably write it as ...

Many programs use the Berkeley Database to store their data in.  Other
versions of the database can be found in the db2, db4.0, db4.1 and db4.2
packages.

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