On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Julien Cristau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 16:43:01 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > >> 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. >> > So as far as I can tell we currently have in wheezy: > - db4.7, building db4.7-util (why?). Only reverse dep is > cyrus-imapd-2.4.
> - db4.8, with reverse dependencies: > + cyrus-imapd-2.4 cyrus-imapd-2.4 depends on (prev-stable) dbX.Y-util to automatically upgrade it's database files. So the answer for (why?) is: because it's needed to upgrade some (journaled, replicated) old bdb database files. db4.8 will be converted to db4.8-util only package after those three rev-deps you mentioned below will be resolved. > + python2.6 Isn't python2.6 going away after python2.7 transition is complete? > + sendmail Sendmail maintainer is unresponsive. (Two RC bugs.) I can NMU, but my only knowledge of sendmail is only 'the big evil MTA' :) > + subversion 4 RC bugs I suggest to remove sendmail and subversion from testing for the time being. > Is there any chance we can reduce that list further still? > - db5.1, default Yup. > - db5.3, with no reverse dependencies. > > I think it's too late to switch to 5.3 now, so unless there's a good > reason I'll probably remove it from wheezy. That's a shame, but I understand. Please remove from testing. Should I create transition blocker bug or you can do some RM magic? O. -- Ondřej Surý <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALjhHG-Vbf�[email protected]
