Hi, I would like to coordinate reduction of BDB packages since I took the unhappy job (as I could expect) to maintain BDB in Debian after Clint have orphaned them.
The main issue which I have encountered (in cyrus-imapd) is that the change from 4.x to 5.x introduces code changes, because the packages check for 4 + something version number. The fix is easy (I can help with that if needed), but it still some work which needs to be done. My suggestion is: 1) Fill bugreports against all packages linking to db4.6, db4.7 and db4.8 to upgrade build depends to libdb-dev (>= 5.1) or at least to libdb5.1-dev (which makes later transition harded). 1a) Optionally link with just -ldb and not -ldbX.Y (linking to specific BDB versions generate a lot of problems, since f.e. cyrus-imapd will happily include 5.1 headers and link to libdb4.7) 2. After some time rebuild the db4.[678] to not generate -dev packages, but to keep db4.[678]-util package available and increase severity 3. After some time rebuild the db4.[678] to not generate libdb4.Y packages, but keep db4.[678]-util package available and increase severity to RC Release next stable with just one libdbX.Y-dev (and libdb-dev) and all dbX.Y-util which were included in current stable. For stable+2 reduce the number to just two version - current -dev and dbX.Y-util for stable+1 upgrades. I know this could cause a lot of pain, but I think the keeping of X > 2 versions of BDB is not sustainable from a long term PoV. I would like to coordinate this with a release team. Also any help would be much appreciated, I am already too overloaded, and I took BDB maintainership just because of cyrus-imapd sake, so if there are any other heavy BDB users, please come and join the packaging team (especially if you use BDB transactional mode). O. P.S.: Please Cc: me since I am not subscribed to debian-devel -- Ondřej Surý <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
