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

Ondřej Surý ondrej at sury.org
Mon Apr 18 15:09:06 UTC 2011


Clint, feel free to comment or edit those wiki pages if you feel something is wrong or missing.

And thanks for maintaining Berkeley DB and preparing the infrastructure for the reduction.

Ondřej Surý

On 18.4.2011, at 17:03, Clint Adams <clint at debian.org> wrote:

> 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.





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