[Pkg-exim4-maintainers] Bug#258311: exim4: Needs db4 support

[Andreas Metzler]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:21:24PM -0700, Tor Slettnes wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.34-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> My +relay_from_hosts list contains:
> 
>   net-dbmnz:/var/lib/drac/dracd.db
> 
> However, the latest version of DRAC uses the "db4" format for this
> data, replacing "db3" used in earlier versions.  According to the
> changelog, that was because Debian's "sendmail" and "postfix" packages
> were both built to use "db4".
> 
> Exim should probably follow suit, sooner rather than later.
> 
> DRAC is used by e.g. Cyrus.
[...]

This will not happen for sarge, because there is just not enough time
to test it.

Contrary to my initial believe the upgrade for exim will be simple,
just flush /var/spool/exim4/db* in postinst. However the important
question is how well exim-db4.2 could access berkeley-dbs of other
programs for reading. This does not only apply to DRAC but also to
POP and IMAP-servers' userdatabases.

There is simply not enough time to test this, imho it would need about
a month in sid but I only have two days before the freeze left.
                cu andreas