Bug#442645: exim4: newer BDB

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 08:53:26AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Clint Adams:
> > On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:53:33PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> >> I have changed the Build-Depends. Things would have been faster one
> >> could easily learn which bdb version is the recommended one this week.
> >
> > You can build-depend upon libdb-dev (>= 4.6.19-1), though I'm not sure
> > that's the recommendation you're looking for.
> 
> Berkeley DB upgrades change the API (in addition to the ABI), so
> explicitly versioned dependencies (libdb4.6-dev et al.) are better.

So, package maintainers need to be aware which Berkeley DB is
recommended to be used for appropriate dependencies. I have been
informed that it is not always a brilliant idea to use latest Berkeley
DB, right?

Greetings
Marc

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