On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Matthias Julius <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am not quite sure how to deal with that one. Since Luk Claes NMUed > the package to change the Build-Depends from libdb4.4-dev to libdb-dev > I don't really have control over which libdb version dnshistory is > built against. If it happens that a new libdb is uploaded before > dnshistory has been built on all archs or if a binNMU is triggered by > a libdb transition debian/NEWS will be outdated. > > I wonder how other packages build-depending on libdb-dev handle this. > > That entry in debian/NEWS is somewhat special in that the dependancy > on libdb had been downgraded from 4.5 to 4.4 in order to allow > dnshistory to migrate into testing (etch at the time) and libdb4.5 was > being kept out. > > On upgrade I would expect db files to be migrated if necessary. I don't see anything in the maintainer scripts that would migrate the db files. Does dnshistory or libdb handle upgrading the on-disk db format? Or can libdb handle older versions of the on-disk db format? >> For some reason the mktime test in ./configure takes ages and a lot of >> CPU in pbuilder and then fails. > > As explained by Sven this is due to an outdated ./configure. What is > the best way to deal with that? Ignore? Run autoconf from > debian/rules? Bug upstream? Bug upstream and run autoconf until the next upstream release. >> I get one dpkg-shlibdeps warning, please ask upstream to remove -lm >> from the link flags: >> >> dependency on libm.so.6 could be avoided if >> "debian/dnshistory/usr/bin/dnshistory" were not uselessly linked >> against it (they use none of its symbols). > > How important is this? I doubt upstream will release a new version > just to fix those minor issues. Fairly minor, just something to fix in the VCS (which seems to be bzr on launchpad). >> You might want to review the debtags and upload a screenshot: > > Since this is a console application and not primarily meant to be run > directly by the user a screenshot is probably not very beneficial. IMO screenshots of console apps can still be useful. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
