Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:43:06AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] sez: Having 5 different versions of one library is just insane imho. What are Maybe you could help out with the bugs here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED];tag=oldbdb;dist=unstable

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-19 Thread Clint Adams
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 12:44:56PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: It appears to me that essentially it is a problem moving from 4.2 to 4.6, but I see nothing about the intermediate versions. Having 2 releases is largely better than having 5 versions around, isn't it? I was waiting for

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Clint Adams schrieb: Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] sez: Having 5 different versions of one library is just insane imho. What are Maybe you could help out with the bugs here: I don't know all the gory details so I don't feel capable to help with this effort. Besides I already have quite

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071016 17:50]: Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the following bdb versions installed: version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) libdb4.2 40 libdb4.3 26 libdb4.4 55 libdb4.5 64 libdb4.6 40 Having

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:33:20PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the following bdb versions installed: version: # of packages

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:37:21AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: If you want to help reducing this number, a good point would helping getting more documentation about the different versions (and their differences) available, and (at least for me) make some backports of the suggested version

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: IMHO we should declare a quarantine of a minimum of 6 months on every new libdb upstream, and only package it *if* openldap (*the* heavy-duty user of libdb advanced features) and cyrus imap (*the* thousands-of-concurrent- locks, mmap-happy user of

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:52:33AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: That's equivalent to an indefinite quarantine; according to BDB upstream, OpenLDAP's problems with various versions are a consequence of abusing the interface, not of using advanced features. I'm not sure why the burden here

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Clint Adams
Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] sez: Having 5 different versions of one library is just insane imho. What are Maybe you could help out with the bugs here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED];tag=oldbdb;dist=unstable -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:00:58 +0200 Francesco P. Lovergine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:52:33AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: That's equivalent to an indefinite quarantine; according to BDB upstream, OpenLDAP's problems with various versions are a consequence of

libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the following bdb versions installed: version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) libdb4.2 40 libdb4.3 26 libdb4.4 55 libdb4.5 64 libdb4.6 40 Having 5 different versions of one library is just insane imho.

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-16 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/16/07, Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the following bdb versions installed: version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) libdb4.2 40 libdb4.3 26 libdb4.4 55 libdb4.5 64 libdb4.6 40

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:50:14 +0200 Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the following bdb versions installed: version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) libdb4.2 40 libdb4.3 26 libdb4.4 55 libdb4.5

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the following bdb versions installed: version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) libdb4.2 40 libdb4.3 26 libdb4.4 55 libdb4.5 64 libdb4.6 40 Having 5

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the following bdb versions installed: version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) libdb4.2 40 libdb4.3 26 libdb4.4 55