[Pkg-db-devel] libdb4.0-util recommended but missing

Florian Weimer fw@deneb.enyo.de
Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:42:18 +0100


* Bob Proulx:

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> libdb4.0-util is recommended by perl but does not seem to exist in the
> archive anymore.  Could someone clue me in as to why it was removed?
> Or perhaps it was just replaced with something different?

Perl's DB_File now links against Berkeley DB 4.2.  This means that
db4.2-util (the "lib" was dropped) should be recommended instead of
libdb4.0-util.