[Pkg-lustre-maintainers] Bug#515860: Little problem with removal of db4.4

[Clint Adams]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 01:24:14PM +0100, Patrick Winnertz wrote:
> There a slight problem with the removal of db4.4 as ldiskfsprogs really needs 
> 4.4 and nothing higher atm. 
> After a speak with upstream it got clear that newer version won't compile (and 
> if they would compile) there is no guarantee that you didn't break your lustre 
> filesystem while using them.
> 
> So there is currently no other choice for me as to keep 4.4 in build-depends. 
> There is a work in progress on upstream's site in order to port the lustre 
> patches for e2fsprogs to an newer version and to support then also a newer db 
> api. 
> Until that I would like to ask you to reschedule the db4.4 removal as these 
> tools are really necessary for the usage of a lustre cluster filesystem.

It's looking more and more unlikely that I'll have time to look at this this
weekend, but there's still a chance.