Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >libdb2 (1 bug) - lots of packages do not work with libdb3 (exim), and there >are problems in with data files in the transition, leave the libdb2 its >current place, or move it to oldlibs to show that it is deprecated.
Erk. I asked the maintainer a while ago how easy it was to implement a smooth transition from db2 to db3, i.e. without having to rebuild the database from scratch, but I asked on IRC so the question probably got lost. For somebody who knows little about Berkeley DB but maintains a package based on it, how difficult is it likely to be? If it's relatively easy, I suppose I could move to it, but I'm deeply reluctant to do that to man-db during the freeze. libc6 also has issues with upgrading from potato that require a dependency on libdb2 (AIUI). Please leave libdb2 where it is until woody + 1; we shouldn't have a required/base package depending on something in oldlibs. No objections to the others, although libpam-modules may have similar problems with moving to libcap2? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
