Bug#442645: exim4: newer BDB

Clint Adams schizo at debian.org
Thu Sep 20 12:33:57 UTC 2007


On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 11:02:23AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> If you use on-disk database environments (grep for DB_ENV to get an
> idea if this is the case), you need quite a bit of code to handle
> updates properly (and downgrades, of course).  If you use just plain
> DB objects, it's not very likely that you'll notice any changes.

And if the change can be accomplished simply by changing the
build-dependency, then i think it is far more sensible to Build-Depend
on libdb-dev instead of a specific version.





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