[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#522767: Bug#522767: Please introduce a db-utils package

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Mon Apr 6 20:19:23 UTC 2009


* Joerg Dorchain:

> in order to always have the latest dbx.x-utils, it would be nice
> to create a db-utils dummy package which always depends on the
> latest version of the actual pakcage. This could be similiar to
> the gcc-package, which always depends upon the latest "real"
> package.

The various dbx.x-util packages are incompatible, and each has
binaries in its own namespace.  I don't think providing a db-utils
package makes sense at the current stage (where we still have multiple
Berkeley DB versions in active use).





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