[pkg-db-devel] Bug#622916: libdb4.7-dev: please reinstate -ldb support

[Niko Tyni]

retitle 622916 libdb4.7-dev: please reinstate -ldb support
severity 622916 wishlist
thanks

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:29:21PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Niko, could you change the linking from -ldb to -ldb-4.7 instead? The
> linkable .so file is provided by libdb4.7 package.

Ah, I didn't really think this through. Sorry for the severity
inflation and thanks for the patch.

Still, I dislike having to apply this. Given a move to db4.8 is much
less risky than 5.x, should we do that for the time being or are you
going to do the same thing to libdb4.8-dev next?

> I just wanted to make linking to libdb-4.7 explicit, not to prevent
> linking at all.

I don't really see the advantage. The maintainers of the dependant
packages are (hopefully) already aware of the transition, why the need
to push them? Are you worried that new packages pick db4.7 by accident?

I see at least memcachedb, radiusd-livingston, drac, squidguard, and
nvi now FTBFS. While they are probably all trivially fixable, this seems
like work for work's sake.

> However I gladly revert the change if it will be too big obstacle.

Please do.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org