[pkg-db-devel] Bug#622916: Bug#621383: Bug#622916: libdb4.7-dev: please reinstate -ldb support

[Clint Adams]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 04:47:50PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> I took over Berkeley DB after Clint orphaned all packages, so I don't
> know what he had in mind, but I have tried to summarize my plan as a

The reason I made the "db" source package that generated a real
libdb-dev package (this regressed later) was specifically to
encourage having as few BDB versions in the archive as possible.
Obviously this failed, and I'm glad that Ondřej seems to be
more successful than I was.