Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-05-01 Thread Matthias Julius
Paul Wise writes: > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Matthias Julius wrote: > >> As explained in another post this should not affect the user since the >> database format has not changed. > > Please investigate the DB->upgrade thing Clint mentioned and forward > that upstream, with a patch if yo

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-05-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Matthias Julius wrote: > As explained in another post this should not affect the user since the > database format has not changed. Please investigate the DB->upgrade thing Clint mentioned and forward that upstream, with a patch if you are able. > I have not done

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-05-01 Thread Matthias Julius
Here we go ... Paul Wise writes: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Matthias Julius wrote: > >> I would really be grateful if someone could take a look at this >> package and possibly upload it for me. > > You build-depend on libdb-dev, in sid that depends on libdb4.7-dev but > the current dnsh

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-30 Thread Matthias Julius
Clint Adams writes: > Typically the fear which motivates this type of question is unfounded. > Looking at the dnshistory source code, it appears that the use of BDB > is trivial. Generally when the feature set you require could just > as easily have been satisfied by GDBM, there are rarely compa

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-30 Thread Clint Adams
> > According to > > http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/ref/upgrade/process.html > > it is not even safe to assume that the API of a new major or minor > > version is backwards compatible.  This means that a binNMU triggered > > by a libdb transition may cause the applica

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Matthias Julius wrote: > Matthias Julius writes: > >> Paul Wise writes: >> >>> I don't see anything in the maintainer scripts that would migrate the >>> db files. Does dnshistory or libdb handle upgrading the on-disk db >>> format? Or can libdb handle older versi

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-30 Thread Matthias Julius
Matthias Julius writes: > Paul Wise writes: > >> I don't see anything in the maintainer scripts that would migrate the >> db files. Does dnshistory or libdb handle upgrading the on-disk db >> format? Or can libdb handle older versions of the on-disk db format? > > I was assuming the latter. But

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Matthias Julius
Paul Wise writes: > I don't see anything in the maintainer scripts that would migrate the > db files. Does dnshistory or libdb handle upgrading the on-disk db > format? Or can libdb handle older versions of the on-disk db format? I was assuming the latter. But, reading http://www.oracle.com/tec

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Matthias Julius wrote: > I am not quite sure how to deal with that one.  Since Luk Claes NMUed > the package to change the Build-Depends from libdb4.4-dev to libdb-dev > I don't really have control over which libdb version dnshistory is > built against.  If it ha

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Matthias Julius
Paul Wise writes: > You build-depend on libdb-dev, in sid that depends on libdb4.7-dev but > the current dnshistory package is built against libdb4.6. Should you > add another debian/NEWS entry about this? I'm not sure what to do in > this situation, could you investigate? I am not quite sure ho

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-28 12:45 +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > For some reason the mktime test in ./configure takes ages and a lot of > CPU in pbuilder and then fails. This means that `configure' needs to be regenerated with a newer version of autoconf (2.61-7 or better). See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Matthias Julius wrote: > I would really be grateful if someone could take a look at this > package and possibly upload it for me. You build-depend on libdb-dev, in sid that depends on libdb4.7-dev but the current dnshistory package is built against libdb4.6. Shou

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-27 Thread Matthias Julius
Matthias Julius writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.3-2 > of my package "dnshistory". > > It builds these binary packages: > dnshistory - Translating and storing of IP addresses from log files > > The package appears to be lintian clean. > > The upload would fix these bugs: