Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-05-01 Thread Matthias Julius
Here we go ... Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net wrote: I would really be grateful if someone could take a look at this package and possibly upload it for me. You build-depend on libdb-dev, in sid that depends on

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-05-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net wrote: As explained in another post this should not affect the user since the database format has not changed. Please investigate the DB-upgrade thing Clint mentioned and forward that upstream, with a patch if you are able.

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-05-01 Thread Matthias Julius
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net wrote: As explained in another post this should not affect the user since the database format has not changed. Please investigate the DB-upgrade thing Clint mentioned and forward that

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-30 Thread Matthias Julius
Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net writes: Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: I don't see anything in the maintainer scripts that would migrate the db files. Does dnshistory or libdb handle upgrading the on-disk db format? Or can libdb handle older versions of the on-disk db format? I was

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net wrote: Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net writes: Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: I don't see anything in the maintainer scripts that would migrate the db files. Does dnshistory or libdb handle upgrading the on-disk db

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-30 Thread Clint Adams
According to http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/ref/upgrade/process.html it is not even safe to assume that the API of a new major or minor version is backwards compatible.  This means that a binNMU triggered by a libdb transition may cause the application to

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-30 Thread Matthias Julius
Clint Adams sch...@debian.org writes: Typically the fear which motivates this type of question is unfounded. Looking at the dnshistory source code, it appears that the use of BDB is trivial. Generally when the feature set you require could just as easily have been satisfied by GDBM, there

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net wrote: I would really be grateful if someone could take a look at this package and possibly upload it for me. You build-depend on libdb-dev, in sid that depends on libdb4.7-dev but the current dnshistory package is built

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-28 12:45 +0200, Paul Wise wrote: For some reason the mktime test in ./configure takes ages and a lot of CPU in pbuilder and then fails. This means that `configure' needs to be regenerated with a newer version of autoconf (2.61-7 or better). See

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Matthias Julius
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: You build-depend on libdb-dev, in sid that depends on libdb4.7-dev but the current dnshistory package is built against libdb4.6. Should you add another debian/NEWS entry about this? I'm not sure what to do in this situation, could you investigate? I am not

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net wrote: I am not quite sure how to deal with that one.  Since Luk Claes NMUed the package to change the Build-Depends from libdb4.4-dev to libdb-dev I don't really have control over which libdb version dnshistory is built

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Matthias Julius
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: I don't see anything in the maintainer scripts that would migrate the db files. Does dnshistory or libdb handle upgrading the on-disk db format? Or can libdb handle older versions of the on-disk db format? I was assuming the latter. But, reading

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-27 Thread Matthias Julius
Matthias Julius li...@julius-net.net writes: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.3-2 of my package dnshistory. It builds these binary packages: dnshistory - Translating and storing of IP addresses from log files The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix

RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-16 Thread Matthias Julius
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.3-2 of my package dnshistory. It builds these binary packages: dnshistory - Translating and storing of IP addresses from log files The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 434881 The package can be