[Pkg-gridengine-devel] Bug#734702: libdb dependency in v8.1.8

[Dave Love]

Afif Elghraoui <afif at ghraoui.name> writes:

>> * Replace dependency on db-5.1 with unversioned package
>> 
>>   The db tools need to be consistent with the library version used in
>>   the build.
>
> The versioning consistency should be taken care of with
> {shlibs:Depends}. db-5.1 isn't in Debian anymore (it's been replaced
> with 5.3).

How does that get you the right db-util package with the tools to handle
the specific version of the db spool?

> By the way, we have a patch in
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=734702
> related to this transition that touches
> source/libs/spool/berkeleydb/sge_bdb.c
> I'm not sure if you want to integrate that (or already have) upstream.

My current source definitely builds against 5.3.