[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#460562: Bug#460562: Bug#460562: Bug#460562: change of package name to "libdb-dev" makes it uninstallable

Clint Adams schizo at debian.org
Mon Jan 14 01:41:39 UTC 2008


On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 08:26:18PM +0000, Martin Guy wrote:
> Can do. Should I ask them to change to requiring libdb-dev or libdb4.6-dev?
> I.E. Is the future plan to keep one version only and simply increase
> libdb's version number, or to carry on from here with the 4.6 4.7 4.8
> scheme of things to limit breakage? (the former I hope!)

My personal opinion is that everyone should build-depend on
libdb-dev (>= 4.6.19-1). Not everyone agrees with me.





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