[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#421946: openldap2.3: build against newer Berkeley DB

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:45:26PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> It's not that bad.  db4.3 is badly broken and nothing should use it, and I
>> don't know of any advantages of db4.4 over db4.5.  It's really only two
>> versions.

> Well, except for this part here:

> $ dak rm -s testing -R -n db4.2|grep -c build-dep
> 24
> $ dak rm -s testing -R -n db4.3|grep -c build-dep
> 30
> $ dak rm -s testing -R -n db4.4|grep -c build-dep
> 27
> $ dak rm -s testing -R -n db4.5|grep -c build-dep
> 3
> $

> I'm sure the BDB maintainers would appreciate help getting rid of
> whichever one of these you think is the lowest-hanging fruit. :)

Oh, yeah, I'm not saying there are only two versions *now*.  :)  I'm just
saying that I'm not aware of any arguments for keeping older versions
other than 4.2.

Maybe once I figure out how to get patches merged into policy, finish
updating OpenAFS to use FHS properly, finish the xml-security-c
transition, and apply the remaining patches I have for OpenLDAP, I'll go
look at eliminating db versions....  *heh*

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>