On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:31:16AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > 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?
Check openldap2 package in debain/patches/. There's a patch to openldap2 so that it can transparently upgrade old db2 .db's to db3. Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
