[Pkg-db-devel] dropping some of db-packages?

Clint Adams schizo@debian.org
Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:48:44 -0500


> inspired by Florian Weimer, I looked at the rdepends of different
> libdb-packages.
> 
> Well, what are your opinions about that? (And of course, we would need
> a deeper look before deciding anything. :)

I would support moving db2, db3, db4.0, and db4.1 to oldlibs, and
dropping their -dev packages.  I'm sure that this will be controversial.

I would be quite surprised if the vacation database code used anything
that was incompatible between 4.1 and 4.3.