severity 731952 wishlist tags 731952 wontfix thanks > In the bitcoin_0.8.6-1.dsc file, the "Build-Depends:" section includes the > entry "libdb++-dev | libdb4.8++-dev". This results in the package potentially > being built with BDB version 5.1. The recommended version, and the one that > the upstream release binaries for all platforms (including Windows, OS X, and > Linux) are built with, is 4.8. BDB is used in the Bitcoin software for the > bitcoin wallet. BDB 5.1 databases are not backwards-compatible with BDB 4.8. > The result of this is any wallet.dat files that are created by, or even > opened with, a Bitcoin binary compiled with BDB 5.1, that wallet will become > incompatible with most other bitcoin binaries out there.
This text is well written and should be added to README.Debian and a summary of this statement added to the package description. Debian removed libdb4.8, so this is unfixable. The severity is minor since this only shows up when you try to mix upstream and Debian binaries. Additionally, you can work around it by importing/exporting private keys to and from wallets of any version. You can open wallet.dat with the client that created/modified it in order to export keys. Backing up wallet.dat is very important for this and many other reasons. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
