> OK, I'm convinced. Let's go for libdb-dev then. Cool, thanks.
> I'm happy to hand this responsibility to the libdb maintainers. I'll do my best. > FWIW, I inherited the versioned libdb-dev dependencies and have never > discussed them with the previous perl maintainers. The DB transitions > we've done so far have been very rare, but I'm aware we've been lagging > behind. > > I suspect the versioned dependencies go back to > > perl (5.8.0-7) unstable; urgency=low > > [...] > * NOTE: DB_File now uses libdb4.0 (previously libdb2). Any DB_File > databases created with earlier perl packages will need to be > upgraded before being used with the current module with the > db4.0_upgrade program (in the libdb4.0-util package, with HTML docs > in db4.0-doc). > [...] > > -- Brendan O'Dea <b...@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2002 04:05:42 +1100 Well, db2 -> db4.x was a big leap (skipping db3). > I hope such incompatibilities will not happen in the future :) Well, they could happen in the future, but it seems that the database format is quite stable for some time (years) now. If such change will happen, I will (in case I am still Berkeley DB maintainer) coordinate the transition (probably uploading to experimental, etc...) > I'll try and get the change uploaded by the weekend (but Dominic, feel > free to pick this up if you like.) Again thank you very much :) > Thanks Ondřej, No problem, happy to help, it will make the Berkeley DB maintenance (e.g. my work) less painful. Now I have to convince python maintainer (doko) and I am almost done :). O. -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org