[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#169830: libdb1-compat: db_dump185 is _still_ useless

[Julian Gilbey]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 01:55:12AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> reassign 169830 libdb2-util
> thanks
> 
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:06:37AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > Package: libdb1-compat
> > Version: 2.1.3-7
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Give us a REAL db_dump185, one that doesn't do this:
> > 
> > tleepslib:/vice/db# db_dump185 prot_index.db
> > db_dump185: prot_index.db: Invalid argument
> > 
> > when faced with a database to migrate.
> 
> libdb1-compat doesn't contain any binaries. db_dump185 comes from
> libdb2-util, so I'm reassigning this there.
> 
> > This bug is ANCIENT, and it can't be very hard to fix.
> 
> It certainly can't be ancient in libdb1-compat, considering when that
> package was created. :-)

I've figured out how this bug can be relatively simply fixed: let
db1-compat provide db_dump185.  The version of this utility in db4.3
has no dependencies on anything except the db1 library, and so
compiles very nicely inside the db1-compat package.

So (especially as libdb2 is likely to vanish before etch), I attach a
patch for db1-compat (although I'm not reassigning this bug there),
which makes it build db_dump185 and conflict/replace libdb2.

Please could you apply this, Colin?

Thanks!

   Julian