Bug#738637: exim4: Please update build depends to libdb-dev (or libdb5.3-dev)

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2014-02-11 Ondřej Surý <ondrej at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.82-4
> Severity: important

> Dear maintainers,

> jessie will have db5.3 as a default Berkeley DB library (fortunatelly
> this seems to be a last Berkeley DB transition since db6.0 has been
> relicenced to AGPLv3 that is virtually not compatible with ... well
> anything).

> Please update build depends to libdb-dev (or libdb5.3-dev), I have
> just verified that the package just builds fine with libdb-dev (and
> exim4-daemon-heavy depends on libdb5.3).

> I will cripple db5.1 package in near future, so it doesn't contain
> development libraries, so this bug will become FTBFS/serious at that
> time.
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Do you know whether the disk file format changed from 5.1 to 5.3?

cu Andreas

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