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

[Toni Mueller]

Hi,

On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 11:30:30PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Isn't python 2.6 going away? I have just removed libdb4.8-dev in a

I'm not sure, but argued against that on the python list
(debian-python at l.d.o). [1]

> 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.

Of course, but if Python2.6 could be made to work with libdb5.1, or just
do that out of the box, I would not bother about libdb4.8 - I only don't
have enough expertise to answer the question. In that case, having an
entry in NEWS.Debian would be sufficient, imho.

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

I wasn't sure that Py2.6 was really going away, and hope that it isn't.
It could be safely dropped for Wheezy + 1, though. I'm not talking about
the maintenance perspective here, only about the user perspective.



Kind regards,
--Toni++

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2012/05/msg00108.html