On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:11:04AM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 23:25, Steven Curtis wrote: > > > I have a question regarding the absence of a libdb4 package for Debian > > GNU/Hurd. There are several packages that rely directly or indirectly on > > the existence of libdb4. I downloaded the source, and it compiled cleanly. > > I am not experienced in Debian package maintenance, and was wondering if > > there was an outstanding reason as to why this software hasn't yet been > > packaged for the Hurd. I plan on taking a crack at figuring out how to do > > so, but couldn't figure out why such cleanly compiling software causing so > > many outstanding dependencies hasn't been packaged yet. I'm not trying to > > raise anyone's ire, just trying to find out if there was a good reason not > > to attempt this. The list archives don't mention anything, so I'm appealing > > to the wisdom of the bazaar. > > Was it the package that built cleanly, or upstream source? If it was > the package, then I will make sure that it goes in tomorrow.
better to wait a while: #160129: db4.0 - doesn't build from source http://bugs.debian.org/160129 -- Robert Millan "5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5" Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
