Bug#460562: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#460562: Bug#460562: Bug#460562: Bug#460562: change of package name to libdb-dev makes it uninstallable

2008-01-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Clint Adams: On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 08:26:18PM +, Martin Guy wrote: Can do. Should I ask them to change to requiring libdb-dev or libdb4.6-dev? I.E. Is the future plan to keep one version only and simply increase libdb's version number, or to carry on from here with the 4.6 4.7 4.8

Bug#460562: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#460562: change of package name to libdb-dev makes it uninstallable

2008-01-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Martin Guy: I could if I were building for myself, but in the debian context packages may build-depend on specific versions of libdb4.?-dev or may be happy with any (specifying libdb-dev), some figures for how many source packages specify the different versions in sid: The idea is to

Bug#460562: change of package name to libdb-dev makes it uninstallable

2008-01-13 Thread Martin Guy
Package: db Version: 4.6.21-5 Hi! I'm trying to satisfy the build dependencies of subversion in sid, but cannot because - subversion build-depends on libdb4.4-dev and libaprutil1-dev - libaprutil1-dev depends on libdb-dev - libdb4.4-dev provides and conflicts with libdb-dev This seems to be

Bug#460562: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#460562: change of package name to libdb-dev makes it uninstallable

2008-01-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Martin Guy: Is there a good reason not to continue the scheme used in libdb4.[12345] ? The name scheme is not the problem, it's the fact that all Berkeley DB -dev packages conflict (because they all install the db.h header file). Can't you link Subversion against Berkeley DB 4.6? According

Bug#460562: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#460562: Bug#460562: change of package name to libdb-dev makes it uninstallable

2008-01-13 Thread Clint Adams
reassign 460562 subversion thanks On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:46:13PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: Can't you link Subversion against Berkeley DB 4.6? According to a report on the Subversion mailing list, the current version passes its test suite unchanged even when using Berkeley DB. -- To

Bug#460562: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#460562: change of package name to libdb-dev makes it uninstallable

2008-01-13 Thread Martin Guy
2008/1/13, Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there a good reason not to continue the scheme used in libdb4.[12345] ? The name scheme is not the problem, it's the fact that all Berkeley DB -dev packages conflict (because they all install the db.h header file). the db.h conflict is not

Bug#460562: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#460562: Bug#460562: change of package name to libdb-dev makes it uninstallable

2008-01-13 Thread Martin Guy
reassign 460562 db thanks Sorry, it's not as simple as that; it impacts on more than one other package. If you want to get everyone to use libdb4.6 instead of explicitly 4.[2345] (which would be a Good Thing, assuming 4.6 is backward-compatible with all the others), then I think you need to file

Bug#460562: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#460562: Bug#460562: change of package name to libdb-dev makes it uninstallable

2008-01-13 Thread Clint Adams
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 08:07:20PM +, Martin Guy wrote: Sorry, it's not as simple as that; it impacts on more than one other package. If you want to get everyone to use libdb4.6 instead of explicitly 4.[2345] (which would be a Good Thing, assuming 4.6 is I certainly want that.

Bug#460562: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#460562: Bug#460562: change of package name to libdb-dev makes it uninstallable

2008-01-13 Thread Martin Guy
feel free to help out by adding to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED];tag=oldbdb;dist=unstable Can do. Should I ask them to change to requiring libdb-dev or libdb4.6-dev? I.E. Is the future plan to keep one version only and simply increase libdb's version number, or to carry on

Bug#460562: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#460562: Bug#460562: Bug#460562: change of package name to libdb-dev makes it uninstallable

2008-01-13 Thread Clint Adams
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 08:26:18PM +, Martin Guy wrote: Can do. Should I ask them to change to requiring libdb-dev or libdb4.6-dev? I.E. Is the future plan to keep one version only and simply increase libdb's version number, or to carry on from here with the 4.6 4.7 4.8 scheme of things to