[pkg-db-devel] Bug#675611: Bug#675611: libdb5.1-dev: no way to install libdb4.x-dev in parallel

Toni Mueller support at oeko.net
Sat Jun 2 20:02:09 UTC 2012


Hi,

On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 09:53:39PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> that wouldn't be necessary in the future as there will be only one X.Y-dev
> in the future (with the exception of transitions). Also you shouldn't (with the
> exception of some special cases) depend on libdbX.Y-dev, but just libdb-dev.

I don't - Python2.6, which is not managed by me, does. It even has a
changelog entry mentioning that it now requires an *older* version of
libdb. I don't dare to touch that dial...

> Last but not least the berkeley db is fragile as is it (it's not
> uncommon for app
> to use one header X.Y, but link with different libdbX.Z which doesn't match
> the header version),

I also see some merit to support different versions of something, so one
package could - in theory - work on several target platforms, but I
realize that this is hard to achieve.


Kind regards,
--Toni++






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