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

[Ondřej Surý]

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Toni Mueller <support at oeko.net> wrote:
>
> 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...

Isn't python 2.6 going away? I have just removed libdb4.8-dev in a
good faith based on my previous conversation with Matthias and status
of python2.7 transition[1].

1. http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/python2.7.html

If python2.6 isn't actually going away (e.g won't be released in
wheezy), we have to decide what to do about db4.8 - I would really
like to drop the library and development files and just keep
db4.8-util for database file upgrades. There is also a problem that db
files created by python would be incompatible with the rest of the
other packages.

But I am willing to reintroduce lidb4.8 and libdb4.8-dev back just to
keep things simple now.

O.
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>