[pkg-db-devel] Berkeley DB plan for future

Ondřej Surý ondrej at sury.org
Tue Apr 26 12:35:05 UTC 2011


So I have created list of affected packages (thanks to Neil Williams
for hinting dd-list), there are four lists:

1. Build-Depends on libdb[45]\..*-dev
http://wiki.debian.org/BerkeleyDB/Build-Depends

2. Depends
http://wiki.debian.org/BerkeleyDB/Depends

3. Depends - Build-Depends (aka indirect dependency)
http://wiki.debian.org/BerkeleyDB/IndirectDepends

4. Build-Depends - Depends (aka invalid listing in Build-Depends)
http://wiki.debian.org/BerkeleyDB/InvalidBuild-Depends

Packages in list 4 should be fixed because it means either one of:

1. The Build-Depends listing is erroneous (f.e. upstream dropped
support for Berkeley DB)
2. The build process is broken (f.e. aka doesn't recognize libdb5.1)
and needs fixing.

O.
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>



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