[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#501241: Bug#501241: libdb4.6-dev: upgrade failure (unpack)

[Clint Adams]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 11:04:15PM +0200, Michel Briand wrote:
> upgrading today (standard aptitude upgrade).
> 
> Something went wrong (log pasted below).

Yes, if you try running it again, it will probably go smoothly.

> One question: I installed libdb and libdb-dev via aptitude.
> I noted that many packages libdb* where installed since that first manual installation.
> I wonder why there is all theses packages... ???

There is work going on to reduce the number.