Bug#621383: Bug#622916: libdb4.7-dev: please reinstate -ldb support

2011-04-20 Thread Niko Tyni
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:31:59PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: On 17.4.2011, at 22:17, Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org wrote: I'm somewhat inclined to just throw in the towel, switch to libdb-dev (Ubuntu already does), and let somebody else worry about db transition risks. It's not like I know

Bug#622916: [pkg-db-devel] Bug#622916: Bug#621383: Bug#622916: libdb4.7-dev: please reinstate -ldb support

2011-04-20 Thread Ondřej Surý
OK, I'm convinced. Let's go for libdb-dev then. Cool, thanks. I'm happy to hand this responsibility to the libdb maintainers. I'll do my best. FWIW, I inherited the versioned libdb-dev dependencies and have never discussed them with the previous perl maintainers. The DB transitions we've

Bug#622916: Bug#621383: Bug#622916: libdb4.7-dev: please reinstate -ldb support

2011-04-18 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:17:38PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 12:52:53PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: Anyway I don't think the move from 4.7 to 4.8 is any less riskier than move from 4.7 to 5.1. The 4.x vs 5.x is nothing more than inability to have 4.10 version number.

Bug#621383: Bug#622916: libdb4.7-dev: please reinstate -ldb support

2011-04-18 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hi Dominic, All that said, I think it largely depends on the libdb team being able to describe what their strategy is. The versioned -dev packages were presumably introduced for a reason; are they staying, and for what purposes are they now intended? I took over Berkeley DB after Clint

Bug#621383: Bug#622916: libdb4.7-dev: please reinstate -ldb support

2011-04-18 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 04:47:50PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: I took over Berkeley DB after Clint orphaned all packages, so I don't know what he had in mind, but I have tried to summarize my plan as a The reason I made the db source package that generated a real libdb-dev package (this regressed

Bug#621383: Bug#622916: libdb4.7-dev: please reinstate -ldb support

2011-04-18 Thread Ondřej Surý
Clint, feel free to comment or edit those wiki pages if you feel something is wrong or missing. And thanks for maintaining Berkeley DB and preparing the infrastructure for the reduction. Ondřej Surý On 18.4.2011, at 17:03, Clint Adams cl...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at

Bug#621383: [pkg-db-devel] Bug#622916: Bug#621383: Bug#622916: libdb4.7-dev: please reinstate -ldb support

2011-04-18 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 05:09:06PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: Clint, feel free to comment or edit those wiki pages if you feel something is wrong or missing. I was just clarifying my position; you're the one doing the work now so I defer to your judgment. Good luck! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#621383: Bug#622916: libdb4.7-dev: please reinstate -ldb support

2011-04-18 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 04:47:50PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: Hi Dominic, All that said, I think it largely depends on the libdb team being able to describe what their strategy is. The versioned -dev packages were presumably introduced for a reason; are they staying, and for what

Bug#621383: Bug#622916: libdb4.7-dev: please reinstate -ldb support

2011-04-17 Thread Niko Tyni
(switching the perl package CC to #621383) On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 12:52:53PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 06:11, Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:29:21PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: Niko, could you change the linking from -ldb to -ldb-4.7

Bug#621383: Bug#622916: libdb4.7-dev: please reinstate -ldb support

2011-04-17 Thread Ondřej Surý
On 17.4.2011, at 22:17, Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org wrote: I'm somewhat inclined to just throw in the towel, switch to libdb-dev (Ubuntu already does), and let somebody else worry about db transition risks. It's not like I know much about them anyway. Do that pretty please;-). I'll guarantee