Am 15.03.2010 um 23:58 schrieb Daniel Johnson:

> 
> On Mar 15, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Macks <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Two-level namespace *should* encapsulate things within each lib, but
>>> if one lib passes a struct or database to another, there could be
>>> problems. With the loss of .la data (due to deleting those files or
>>> installing dpkg-base-files) there is less propagation of library
>>> dependencies that are not actually used, so it's possible that (for
>>> example) svn doesn't need db4* at all itself.
>> 
>> Actually, svn does use db4* directly, and in fact its configure
>> explicitly checks that it's being built with the same version as used
>> by libaprutil.0 or else the build fails. A bit of a PITA since they
>> have to be kept in sync.
>> 
>> Daniel
> 
> As a follow up, I checked to see what db* is being used. db41 and db31 aren't 
> used by anything in unstable. I've deleted db41; Max, db31 is yours. It's 
> probably safe to get rid of it. Every other db, even db3, is used by at least 
> a couple of packages. :( I think this is all of them:
> 

db31 was only ever used for an old version of evolution (back when I packaged 
it for the first time. what a *pain* that was... :). So yeah, it can be 
removed, and I just did that.


As for the rest: It sure would be nice if more of those could be converted to 
newer versions. 


> db3:
>  gconf
>  wsmake

Well, gconf is 10.4 / 10.5 only; but, there are several more packages depending 
on db3, although they all seem to be 10.4 / 10.5 only, too. That said, it would 
be good to keep this around for our 10.4 / 10.5 users (of the latter group I 
was a member till 2 days ago :). Here are some more packages using db3 (I only 
looked at unstable):

control-center
gal19
gconf
gnome-apt
gnome-pim
gnome-python-py23
gnome-vfs
gtkhtml
pygtk-py23
xmms-gdancer
peacock

> 
> db4:
>  spamprobe

Confirmed. The .info file seems to be pretty outdated, too (version 1.0a from 
Nov 2004, but 1.4d from Jan 2007 is current). I'll contact the maintainer to 
see if he wants to upgrade.

> db42:
>  openoffice.org
>  openoffice.org-firefox
>  openoffice.org-nocrypto

Confirmed. This is openoffice 2.0.2, current is 3.2. It's only for 10.4 & 10.5, 
too.


I haven't looked at the rest, as there are so many more packages; it's probably 
not worth the effort to try to upgrade them all at once.


Cheers,
Max
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